Mark, it sounds bad but in some ways I think Elm is really only ready for those who are willing to ride a little with the waves of change. If you want something stable for a long period of time I don't think Elm is ready for that.
That said, the upside is that Elm is a very simple language and so despite the docs being a little lacking it's quite easy to learn. On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 10:26:31 AM UTC-6, Mark Hamburg wrote: > > I was talking with coworkers about my team's experiments with Elm and I > found myself having to blunt their interest because of the current state of > Elm 0.17 — documentation still has holes, tutorials haven't had a chance to > arise, some functionality is still missing relative to 0.16, etc. This > wouldn't have been a problem in some other languages I've advocated for in > the past — e.g., Lua — because I could have said "Elm 0.17 is out and it > looks like a big step forward. However, some pieces are missing and there > isn't a lot of material about it yet, so depending on what you want to do, > you may find it easier right now to start with 0.16 while the community > transitions." Except I can't really say that because access to 0.16 has > become much harder. For example, one can no longer just go to the web site > and browse the documentation for 0.16. (Or if one can, it's pretty buried.) > Contrast this with Lua where the 5.1 (released in 2006) reference manual is > available at online at lua.org and older versions are available as > archives. This leaves me with a problem when it comes to advocating for Elm > and when I explain the situation to people their response is along the > lines of suggesting that the Elm community can't be trusted not to pull the > rug out from under one. > > So, while I'm mostly interested in seeing 0.17 get fleshed out, I think > having a link on the front page of elm-lang.org that would take one back > to the 0.16 world would be a good thing while 0.17 matures. > > Mark > > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
