amencarini

This typeclasses discussion reminds me a lot of complaints about Go's lack of generics. Even without this "glaring shortcoming" Go became the de facto winner in the ops space, by staying a simple language with a smaller learning surface. Elm could be walking down the same route.

Personally I find composability under The Elm Architecture more of an issue than pure language abstractions.

We are talking about a children's book, I don't think a reader of this book will have to maintain large codebases for a job anytime soon.

Incidentally, Ruby is great for beginners thanks to its expressiveness.

A better tool such as?

Why am I not surprised that a software mainly famous because of its pop-up ads is not the most reliable thing ever?

The Iron.io blogpost was what got me looking into Go. As a Rubyist it was quite eye-opening!

It must feel good to build a business on open source software and then try to kill open source software. Way to go, Groupon!