I've read the transcript of the video for the first two questions, "What's The State Of Elm?" and "What’s Evan Working On?". After 12 minutes of chatting, I could still not grasp the beginning of an answer to these questions.
For "What's The State Of Elm?", the developer only explains why there hasn't been a release for 5 years:
- He felt his work wasn't recognized enough by the company he worked for.
- He created a foundation to collect donations, but felt he would not feel at ease with that.
- He has one sentence about the covid: "Okay, and so we did have a pandemic, so maybe that's the fact."
- His work was a long-term investment that did not "meet the needs or the demands of everybody else".
- He talked with many companies that used Elm. But he always got the response "The answer was always like, well, it's going pretty good. We're actually struggling a lot with our backend.".
I think his memory is failing him on this last point. I'd be extremely surprised that companies that used Elm could never find any fault with the language or the compiler. I can remember two essays where companies were glad for Elm, but with serious technical problems, like the inability to host private packages.
I've read the transcript of the video for the first two questions, "What's The State Of Elm?" and "What’s Evan Working On?". After 12 minutes of chatting, I could still not grasp the beginning of an answer to these questions.
For "What's The State Of Elm?", the developer only explains why there hasn't been a release for 5 years:
- He felt his work wasn't recognized enough by the company he worked for.
- He created a foundation to collect donations, but felt he would not feel at ease with that.
- He has one sentence about the covid: "Okay, and so we did have a pandemic, so maybe that's the fact."
- His work was a long-term investment that did not "meet the needs or the demands of everybody else".
- He talked with many companies that used Elm. But he always got the response "The answer was always like, well, it's going pretty good. We're actually struggling a lot with our backend.".
I think his memory is failing him on this last point. I'd be extremely surprised that companies that used Elm could never find any fault with the language or the compiler. I can remember two essays where companies were glad for Elm, but with serious technical problems, like the inability to host private packages.