Update for Elm 0.17 ?

[matrixise]

[rgrempel]

Ah, yes.

I guess when Elm 0.17 came out, I wasn't very enthusiastic about updating this for Elm 0.17. The README explains my line of thinking in one way -- let me try another angle here.

What has changed since I started this project that would make my attitude different than it was? That is, I originally saw a need for expanded coverage of the Web APIs in Elm, so I started to work on this. What has changed now?

I suppose the trigger was that the Elm 0.17 announcement commits to a policy whereby only elm-lang should own modules that implement Web APIs, and that elm-lang will (eventually) publish modules that cover the full Web API. And, of course, elm-lang can enforce this (as far as elm-package is concerned, at least), via the native package block.

Now, it's not as though that policy is a big shock -- it was reasonably predictable, I suppose -- in fact, anything else would probably have been more surprising.

Furthermore, I do disagree with the policy -- though I've always been a bit diffident about that. After all, Elm is an interesting experiment in how to build a programming language and its community. Now, I happen to think that some parts of how the experiment is being conducted have serious flaws. However, it certainly has been quite successful -- and some people argue that it is exactly the things I disagree with that are essential to its success. And, you could argue that Elm is entitled to run the kind of experiment it wants to run.

In any event, I guess it seemed to me that the Elm 0.17 announcement explicitly made a project of this kind a sort of outlaw. Now, I don't entirely mind being an outlaw. However, the kind of energy I personally have for outlaw projects has basically been subsumed by purescript-elm -- that is, my attempt to implement Elm inside Purescript. I suppose my thinking is something like this: if I'm going to be an outlaw anyway, I may as well aim for something that actually achieves freedom.

So, that's a little more of an explanation about why I'm personally de-motivated to continue with this. However, here are a few additional considerations.

• It would be fine with me if someone else wants to pick this up and run with it.
• It's never been clear to me how many people are actually using this. If there are a fair number, then I can see how it would be polite to at least update the existing code for Elm 0.17.
• Updating the various functions and tasks for Elm 0.17 would be fairly trivial to do. The signals would be more work, but I suppose that they could be translated to effects managers and subscriptions without a ton of effort.

So, I suppose I could be convinced to put a little more effort into this, and at least pull the existing code into an Elm 0.17 world. However, I don't personally have the right kind of motivation for really continuing the project.