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Let's proceed in reverse order: 1. You don't get to define evidence-backed criticism to be only the criticism that you appreciate. 2. I didn't "attack" Richard. I pointed out an in…

When did evidence-backed criticism become synonymous with trolling? Also, which statement exactly was angry? (Let alone rubbish? Or, gasp, vomit?) It seems you want all Elm news to…

I've seen Evan's talk. Evan confuses the presentation of features with the value of those features. (I suppose one could solve the difficulties people have in learning Mathematics …

> "The DOM uses local state extensively, and sometimes you need to interact directly with its API. When you do, you can either do more work to translate it into your preferred arch…

Your solution redefines the word "local" to mean "global." Yes, you can store a component's intrinsically local state as field in your global model and then use a specialized updat…

> "All three of those have very different goals and trade-offs from GHCJS." And therein lies the problem. In my view, the most important goal is to have at least one really good Al…

That might solve the cursor issue, but it's a bigger issue than cursor state. The real issue is that Elm doesn't treat its programmers like grown-ups. That sounds harsh, so let me …

Reflex is great (and its author is a genius) but it's not really useful yet for non-desktop apps. Because Reflex + GHCJS is impossibly slow on mobile. As an experiment, try using c…

@rtfeldman -- I think your response is a bit disingenuous since only yesterday you wrote, in response to a question about cursor state, this: "I wouldn't maintain cursor state in t…