As more people enter /r/elm and the Elm discourse, Evan has thought a lot about how "online communities" work.
Thank you for coming everyone. I'm Evan. I designed this programming language Elm and I've been working on it over 10 years now and I wanted to share what I learned that I would want to have heard when I started out as a student.
Language decisions are often made by non-technical founders, risk-averse managers, that one contractor who wrote the whole MVP in Ruby, etc. It may be true that languages like Elm, Haskell, and OCaml offer great technical advantages, but that just is not how the decisions are made. keynote 