doppioslash

1. you need to have something you really want people to know about, develop a talk around it

2. start doing that talk at your local meetups, you'll figure out how to do talks well with time (also there is good advice online)

3. identify conferences you'd like to speak at, and answer their call for talks

4. keep doing all that, and at some point one of your submissions will be accepted

5. rehearse many times to be prepared, and do a good talk

6. more submissions will be accepted, and if you keep doing a few conferences a year, eventually you'll get invitations to speak at conferences

What you're feeling is sanity giving you a reality check.

The possibility of starting to hate your own startup isn't much considered, but as you found out definitely exist. You might be heading towards a nice nervous breakdown. Definitely consider seriously making your load lighter, either by delegating your job, or quitting altogether.

You're not going to get those years of life back.

No, and they're not planned either. There has been much discussion about them in the years: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1039

No actually, if you read the announcement you'll find that Elm is keeping platform specific code in the Platform module, to not be locked into being a Javascript-only language forever.

So maybe it would take some time, months, years, but Elm could end up running on the BEAM.

You do all the work for the talk, you are the content of the conference, and they want you to pay to speak as well?

I think that's a very bad deal.

that'd be great :D

This is nice. Last commit is 1 year ago though.

I run MongooseIM, an ejabberd fork. It works fine. It needed a reboot once, after that been running continuously.

If you don't accept that there is something we haven't yet explained because we haven't found the right paradigm to explain it yet you're stopping the evolution of science at the current level.

At the moment science has a materialistic view, but for all we know in a 100 years they'll discover things that we're unable to imagine now as we are thinking within science's current principles.

So magic is just undocumented science :P