Elm & Open Source: What's Next?
summary
Elm hasn't had a release in five years but remains BSD3 and maintained through private company relationships and a foundation rather than donations; an engineer who built Elm focuses now on a private backend/compiler project, demoing prototypes to partner companies and converting compiler error messages into JSON for tooling. Goal is full-stack type safety with compilers that analyze the entire system. Prior work includes an online editor to get started in minutes and pragmatic advice about open source economics and sustaining maintainers.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:27The state Of Elm
- 8:30What’s Evan working on?
- 12:58Being a compiler author
- 19:30Is Open Source worth pursuing?
- 24:10How to better share functional programming's benefits with the industry
- 28:46How to improve developer experience
- 32:55Why Is Rust gaining traction?
- 38:14Error handling in Elm
- 41:58What would Evan do differently In hindsight?
- 43:18Advice for Open Source software devs
- 45:18Outro
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