This Week, in April 2017: > > Elm, potential BDFL and community friction... >
Just wanted to chip in my 2 cents. I think Evan as BDFL is working for Elm, and I understand and respect his desire to go slow and get it right for the long term. Its very hard to maintain that position when people are clamouring for features. But it is also a tough job maintaining the vision for a language that aims to maintain its functional purity - so every piece of design takes time and careful thought and there is only so fast one guy can go whilst also holding down a day job. I do think that support for binary data is something that is constantly being asked for and needs to be addressed by the core Elm language though. As a community, perhaps the best thing we could do is to discuss the options here? What does it look like in code? How is binary data handled in ML, OCaml, Haskell etc. Also Elm aims to cover the whole of the web platform and there is plenty outside of the core language. As a community we can get involved by identifying area of the platform that the libraries do not cover (well) and working on those. I seem to have picked typed-svg for my sins, but it is a necessary part of the platform and open to the community to build. We could helpfully draw up a list of similar areas requiring work that are outside of the kernel and the language itself. -- 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.
