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They are only as fragile as your type source.
Maybe not 'fragile' as in buggy, not buggy, but I found them to be 'quirky'. Sometimes stop working unless I close /re-open VScode. Stuff like that. And other downfall. Do they still not work with DOTNET Core??
Great addition to a great language. We've been building a very technical product in F# + Rust for the last three years or so (think R lang + R Studio or Replit but for DSLs we built for finance and contracts). While most folks tend to see F# as a .NET-oriented/back-end kind of language, they'd be missing some incredibly unique web technologies such as the Fable compiler (F# -> JS, Python, Dart, etc) and Elmish (Elm,…
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> That's really reductive and biased against us, the potential user base of Elm that decided not to engage. My complaint isn't that you or anyone doesn't engage with Elm, that's your prerogative, of course. My problem is that a small segment of people do engage with it whenever it comes up to smear the project in general or Evan in particular for nothing worse than wanting to run his own project his own way. He's not…
As far as I've seen, there was no attack on the person. What I usually see are warnings about what happened to the project and how it is run, mostly targeted to the unaware. This is a sign of respect to people's time before they waste it on something that might disappoint them when they get to know the details.
Look, I get it, I'm still sore about Google Feed Reader, 'member that?
But enough is enough. It's old news. Get over it. Etc.
It's like if every time someone mentioned Caddy server there was someone bringing up that time Matt Holt put that header in and pissed off a bunch of people. Life goes on. We forgive and let things go.
It's high time for folks to forgive Evan for his mistakes. I mean, he's very young still, eh? Cut the guy some slack already?
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Please PLEASE enough with the character assassination of the Elm guy. He wants to run his own project his own way. There's a small but dedicated residue of people who just can't stand being told "no" and go around crapping on the kid whenever they get a chance. I get it. You don't like Evan's project management style. Move on already. - - - - The fact of the matter is that he's a person who took his thesis, made it i…
It's not "character assassination" to criticize someone.
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As far as I've seen, there was no attack on the person. What I usually see are warnings about what happened to the project and how it is run, mostly targeted to the unaware. This is a sign of respect to people's time before they waste it on something that might disappoint them when they get to know the details.
Every time Elm comes up people climb out of the woodwork to cast aspersions on it for no better reason than that Evan wants to run his project his way. Some people evidently just can't accept that and have sustained a grudge that drives them to comment on it whenever it comes up. Look, I get it, I'm still sore about Google Feed Reader, 'member that? But enough is enough. It's old news. Get over it. Etc. It's like if…
When I propose a tool to my CTO I couldn't care less about the project's leadership personal choices.
Mature engineers think in terms of ROI, dependability, bus factor, predictability, funding, mind-share, hiring ease, license, etc.
But it would be naive and unprofessional of me to handwave technical issues with the tools. And ALL tools have hard edges and undesirable characteristics.
And putting a header in a HTTP server is not proportional as restricting who can change the source code of a compiler.
Matt Holt is awesome btw. And so is Elm author.
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As far as I've seen, there was no attack on the person. What I usually see are warnings about what happened to the project and how it is run, mostly targeted to the unaware. This is a sign of respect to people's time before they waste it on something that might disappoint them when they get to know the details.
Every time Elm comes up people climb out of the woodwork to cast aspersions on it for no better reason than that Evan wants to run his project his way. Some people evidently just can't accept that and have sustained a grudge that drives them to comment on it whenever it comes up. Look, I get it, I'm still sore about Google Feed Reader, 'member that? But enough is enough. It's old news. Get over it. Etc. It's like if…
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F# is my go-to language for new backend projects and console apps. You can be as functional as you like, with imperative/mutable/OOP escape hatches available for those rare but unavoidable times you need them
Have to agree. Recently decided to try out Python instead. Everyone at work wanted Python, it's popular, so why not give it a shot. In constant regret, missing the type checking in F#.
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F# is my go-to language for new backend projects and console apps. You can be as functional as you like, with imperative/mutable/OOP escape hatches available for those rare but unavoidable times you need them
Have to agree. Recently decided to try out Python instead. Everyone at work wanted Python, it's popular, so why not give it a shot. In constant regret, missing the type checking in F#.