I was certainly a bit bummed to hear that he has mostly moved on. I’ve enjoyed listening to his talks and some podcast appearances. I’m not convinced that his movung on is something to worry about though. If he doesn’t find that the community gels with his ideas it seems sound that he keeps looking.
I didn’t really grasp whatever the importance of what he wanted to do was. I think the certain level of conservatism he found around the language is likely real and factual. I even think that might be a plus in my book. I’m not very conservative overall but I’m good with avoiding the rollercoaster of JS life when possible.
I see a stable core and ambitious projects building on top of it. He mostly dismissed LiveView, that’s definitely something one can argue about. But I could ignore the web entirely and just look at Nerves, Scenic, Lumen, Membrane and I get plenty excited.
I think the ecosystem and community is fine and doing fine. If there is merit to whatever he was proposing I hope it catches on. I thin it has to be fine that some people don’t find what they need and move along. Even the entertaining and high-profile ones.
