FYI: The slides are linked in the description and the comments. I found that having the video in the background and just following along via the slides worked quite well.
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It might actually be less effort to follow his method. You may need to create a new namespace or create a new function, but then you don't need to put out breaking change notices, handle user issues due to breaking changes, etc.
> "Man browsers are so reliable and bug free and it's great that the new standards like flexbox get widespread adoption quickly, but I just wish the website I made for my dog in 1992 was supported better." -no one ever.
It's not about better support for your 1992 website, it's about it still being accessible at all. Perhaps you've never had to deal with a file in a legacy format (ahem, Word) that had value to you, but was unrecognized in newer versions of software, but I can assure you that it's thoroughly frustrating.
> Also even though I'm a fulltime Clojure dev, I would take Elms semantic versioning that is guaranteed through static type analysis anytime over spec's "we probably grew it in a consistent way" handwaving.
An Elm function `foo :: int -> int` that used to increment and now acts as the identity function is merely statically-typed "we probably grew it in a consistent way" hand-waving, which may be worse than the alternative given the amount of trust people put into types.