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scottwick | 3 years ago

I've never used Elm or interacted with the community but reading some of those posts remind me that the B in BDFL is quite important.

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carapace|3 years ago

Evan's hella nice. Some folks just really really don't like being told "No."

(There are comments upthread calling the Elm community "happy cult" because they said "no" so nicely!)

The complaints you hear about Elm are pretty much all of the "Evan said no" ilk.

What you don't hear is are actual bug reports, eh? People aren't kvetching about how their Elm apps broke, eh? That silence is deafening, once you listen for it. Elm works. It may be the Easy-Bake Oven of web dev, but the things it cooks are perfectly edible!

(Following that metaphor, most JS frameworks, etc. produce muffins with bits of broken glass in them.)

edflsafoiewq|3 years ago

"Nice" and "benevolent" are not the same thing.