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“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki

Elm Europe · talk · Watch on YouTube

Software practice, open source & careersProgramming language designFunctional programming

What it is

Elm creator Evan Czaplicki's 2018 Elm Europe talk on how to define success for an open source project and language community. It argues against judging projects by GitHub activity and touches on community expectations.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in debates over Elm's direction and open source health, with some praising its points about metrics and others finding its tone toward unhappy users hard to watch.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Maybe you should watch Evan's talks from various Elm conferences”

    Explains Elm's release pace and priorities

    antouank, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Our Use of Haskell and Elm”

  2. “he raises some interesting points about how measuring projects by Github activity is strongly biased”

    Measuring project success beyond GitHub activity

    ssivark, 2018-08 · Recommendation · in “Methodologies for measuring open source project health”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: elm, open source, community, language design, metrics

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