How to Win Over Engineers in Elm for a Major Product

Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower

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How to Win Over Engineers in Elm for a Major Product

Will Thomas had to win over engineers as well as product and was successful in doing so yeah that was I was like a six month process. He found some spare time of his own and rewrote portions of the react code base in elm then went to my manager about how he thought it could be done. It's beyond the point of like migrating this code base, will say. Will: "I simply come back from everything else I've done just it's got to get done how can we make it happen"

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Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower

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[00:00:22] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:01:02] Introducing Wolfgang Schuster

[00:02:55] Seeing Elm everywhere

[00:04:45] Going all-in on programming

[00:10:23] "Just make it work"

[00:13:18] Discovering Elm

[00:25:27] Helping to build stuff with Elm while at Square

[00:28:39] Strategies for introducing Elm

[00:35:09] Productivity & "the culture of moving a little bit slower"

[00:41:09] Introducing elm-review rules

[00:54:20] Elm at Vendr

[00:58:09] Using Elm at scale

[01:03:43] Strategies for adding web components

[01:07:29] Roc

[01:10:49] Picks

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