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That's partially true. Evan is not able to use it outside core packages.

Not dead, Evan was working on Acadia (elm on db) which is about to be released, to make Elm development and funding more sustentable.

Someone had to be fired to convince investors they are really replacing developers with "AI".

Are sigils (~) restricted to one char? To me seems ~Zig would be more clear and short enough.

I love how determinist it is!

Except Evan and his wife are developing elm for backend and elm.studio

Duolingo deleted the entire community-based Esperanto portuguese course. All the hard work, thrown away because it's not profitable enough.

"Hot Module Replacement (HMR) is a feature in some programming languages and frameworks that allows developers to update modules or parts of the application in real-time while the …

This is not only about leadership style, but also founding. I don't know the current TS team, but I know its dozens of full time workers backed by microsoft, not only core devs, bu…

Without this management style Elm would be the oppositive of what it is today (simple language, very fast compiler, efficient tree shaking, no runtime exceptions) wanting to add at…

They are doing too much at once, but I think it's possible, since they are a company, and last year raised $21M. https://deno.com/blog/series-a

Could custom elements help in your case? Many people quit Elm after kernel code was removed, without knowing ports are not the only FFI option.

Also: https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2529/elm-on-the-backend https://elm.studio https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/the-economics-of-programming...

You can still use records and custom types for this case.

It is not a fork, it started as fork to save time, but targets/focus on node and will diverge from Elm.

How would they know this information? Maybe in my country this isn't a thing before getting a job.

Vendr (1B+), NoRedInk and Humio are huge companies and their entire frontend is in Elm.

He works on private branches to avoid speculation and pressure. Example, he gave this presentation yesterday: https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2529/elm-on-the-backend

Indeed the releases are less frequent and Evan works in batches to avoid breaking changes every year. But he didn't left, he still works on private branches and on security patches…

Elm is used in many medium/large companies. The biggest ones are NoRedInk and Vendr, the later reached 1B valuation recently with 600k+ loc Elm codebase.

Evan works privately and sync with public repo every release.

Roc is not a fork. And Evan itself don't care about forks, unless it uses related name or logo.

They are not targeted for vegans, the huge majority of customer are curious people that wants to transition into vegetarian/vegan diet and need the help of plant based meats.

Elm is very stable and Evan keeps working on private repo before the next release. He talked about the explorations: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/where-can-we-find-the-roadm...…

No government subsidies and low production volume