Evan works at NoRedInk which has a huge stake in Elm being around *and being awesome*. I would bet that Elm will be around tomorrow.
Regarding convincing your boss, the main use case scenario for an Elm app is something that is highly complex and that needs to go. Elm is designed for code evolution into something of increasing complexity. The way Elm approached this is with a sound architecture that isolates the complexity within tightly controlled borders and leaves the main bulk of the code being simple functions and data structures. That being said, there is a price to be paid. Elm is still very young. The language evolves and some pieces of code can become obsolete faster. Documentation is scarce and with the move to 0.17 a lot of the old 3rd party tutorials have become unusable. You might also have some trouble finding extra developers if you want to expand. On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Mats Stijlaart <mstijla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > As a developer I am convinced that I want to build my front-end software > with Elm, but I need some arguments to convince my boss. > > In my company a piece of front-end has to be rebuild and extended with a > new front-end technology (currently Java JSP). I have already convinced my > colleagues by rebuilding a single page in Elm. They are really > enthusiastic, but I still have to convince my boss that it is the 'right' > choice. In 2013 a part of the platform was rewritten in Angular 1.X. > Angular 1.X will soon to be legacy technology when it is replaced with 2.0. > My boss' concern is that within three years we will go through the same > choice for a new technology, and he has to face the customer telling them > that we have/want to rebuild the existing fronted to eliminate legacy code. > > So, I have to convince my boss that from a business perspective it is a > wise choice to put his money on Elm. One of the main questions to be > answered is: is Elm going to be around tomorrow? > > Does anybody have some good arguments/strong opinions why we should or > should not adopt Elm as front-end language from a business perspective? Or > what arguments did you use to convince your boss? > > Thanks, > Mats > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- There is NO FATE, we are the creators. blog: http://damoc.ro/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
