[Skinney]

What is "the right thing to do"? Depends doesn't it? Just because other languages have support for something like typeclasses, doesn't mean that it's the right thing for Elm to have.

The fact that NoRedInk are perfectly happy without typeclasses (or something similar) could be an indication that it really isn't as important that people would make you believe. After all, there are several languages out there with support for typeclasses (or something similar). Like purescript. And yet, people decide to use Elm.

[leshow]

Perhaps not, but it seemed like an issue even in small sized apps that I wrote.

I think that Evan and Richard are personally invested in the language and can't see it's shortcomings.