Comment by pyrale

> I'd encourage everyone to watch that as a grain of salt to TFA. It seems like the project leader felt he was being taken advantage of, and was just not getting out as much as he was putting in.

That's two different topics. The work situation Evan had with NRI is completely unrelated to what he and the core team decided to shape the community into, which is the subject of TFA's criticism.

> That's his decision to make and he doesn't owe anyone anything.

In the world of emergent programming languages, the language author isn't the only one taking risks. Early adopters do have skin in the game, and their work spent growing the ecosystem is valuable. Sure, I get that Evan doesn't owe work to anyone. However, he also made sure that everyone in the community had to rely on him, and that's the issue.

In retrospect, Luke Plant correctly identified the risks Elm's community management style created, and eventually these risks came to materialize.

For these reasons, I can't advise people to touch anything Evan does in the future.

> Elm's governance and process are what made it such a delight to use.

I guess you haven't been personally contacted by a member of the core team trying to steer you into changing course on a technical topic. That interaction was not delightful.