> > First, I'm going to call out the air of ungratefulness and animosity in > this thread. Evan is giving you software for free, and it's software that's > good enough that you invest your time into writing it and commenting about > it. >
Just to be clear, in case this is directed at me in part or as a whole. I forgot to mention that I highly respect Evan's work (in fact my company logo is on the front page of the elm website). This is important to mention whenever you offer any criticism, I apologize for not adding this counterweight to soften the blow. I forgot to consider how it might be taken. I wrote the postscript in a bit of a hurry and should have moderated down a bit I think. I generally try very hard to stay on point and fill my posts with information-dense arguments so that people will respond to the content rather than the tone. To also add a bit of a positive spin to this, we've been making a push to make greater use of Elm at my work, so this is why I've become more interested in the health and sustainability of the ecosystem. We currently have a couple of internal screens in development that are 100% Elm. The experience has been pretty nice so far, though it took a little bit of time to aclimate to the Elm way. For a Haskell shop like ours it might have been more appropriate to use PureScript as it is better aligned with the skills we have in our team. However I think that Elm is a viable candidate and I sincerely hope that Evan will succeed in bringing it to the masses (and I think he should). I'm hesitant, but perhaps just one meta-thought. I think that people here sometimes misattribute fear or even (misguided?) attempts at being helpful as animosity. I think a more moderated, and less reactionary approach to responding to people would also contribute to a less inflammatory environment and fewer of these meta discussions in general. Perhaps even just a friendly reminder quoted from the rules or something if you think it is appropriate. My apologies for further increasing the length of this thread, seems like someone will need to start over with a concrete topic. -- 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.
