The Importance of Measurability in Developer Tools

There's a dedicated conference that charges an admission price for Elm focused meetups. The downside of that is you miss out on people who are great and not conference speakers. A lot of what we're doing right now at the company I call it like a slow burn to really be our bread and butter but it's going to be really complicated. Russ Cox wrote a uniquely thoughtful blog post about wanting to add usage metrics to the Go compilation Go tool chain. It had the reaction that everybody was like get off my lawn you know all my personal data is a problem.