Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools

Re:Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools by couchand on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:17AM (#8735151)

My attitude towards developer tooling tends to be: build the tools first for the experts, and second make sure the are learnable. I can't stand professional tools that are built primarily for new users. Englebart's violin [0] and all that.

That said, it might be the case that removing the responsibility of versioning from experts would make them less concerned about the ramifications, and less likely to notice when they make a change like this one (well not this one exactly, but one similar but more reasonable).

You really do need tests in addition to static analysis to be sure of these things.

[0]: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

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Re:Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools by jmite on Thursday December 11, 2014 @04:57PM (#8737275)

I think it has as much to do with standardization as ease of use. This way, if there are multiple experts, they don't each do it their own way.

Plus, it gives a degree of reliability to those using the packages, which is something you can't necessarily count on in Haskell right now.

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