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> That came over to me as "you are obliged to do a lot more work that I want you to do, on your own time and personal cost, and to stop developing the project according to your own vision or you are a bad person".

I mention this in my top-level comment, but here's Rich Hickey of Clojure responding to similar assertions: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au...

> Clojure was not originally primarily a community effort, and it isn't primarily one now. That has to be ok. The presumption that everything is or ought to be a community endeavor is severely broken. A true community respects the autonomy of its participants, else it degenerates into a cult of need/want.

The people who write these "I'm leaving X" posts must know they have disproportional power in such a tiny pond. Imagine writing the same post about Javascript or Java because you thought it was supposed to be a democracy or something. Nobody would even read your post.

Let's take Java as a point of reference, since you brought it up. Imagine the JDK were opinionated about which authors were allowed to write packages that use FFI. And people wanting to use it would be instructed to build a relationship to said authors to get their code blessed to use FFI. It is wholly inconceivable. I'm sure you'd see quite a few "Leaving Java" posts over it.

your scenario isn't all that different from how the jdk authors view the use of internal classes, like sun.misc.unsafe.

Here's what Oracle says[0]: "Technically, nothing prevents your program from calling into sun.* by name." And I don't think I ever accessed sun.* when writing Java. So the example seems both ill-suited and far-fetched to me.

One of the first things I did in Elm was writing a tiny JS snippet to get a missing piece from the browser. It was something I needed and my site wouldn't have worked without it. I later switched to the Elm implementation once that became available.

Now given the stated goals of the Elm project, I will be unable to repeat this. Which means I expect I'd be stuck if I again wanted to access the browser API before the Elm people got around to implement that part. And that wholly changes my view of the project.

I'm using Elm for a toy project. If I'm blocked, I go do something else. What a pity though.

[0] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/faq-sun-packages.ht...

> The people who write these "I'm leaving X" posts must know they have disproportional power in such a tiny pond.

This is what I find so disappointing and likely why many "thin-skinned" users come out to defend the language when posts like this come out.

> Nobody would even read your post.

Is there anything factual in the post you take issue with?

Oh, I was knee jerked into replying this thread and didn't realised the same comment was made!

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