Lore: What is Evan working on?

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Planted Oct 1, 2023 - Last tended Oct 30, 2024
Evan is currently in a deep cycle exploring Elm within a backend/database context.
There are no timelines for this work, but Evan recently (at
Elm Camp – June 2024
) indicated he's starting to look at privately working with a few companies, so it appears to be progressing well.

Summary of previous updates

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May 2023 – Elm on The Backend - GOTO Aarhus
NOTE: My goal is to get some early feedback from the in-person audience, so the video will be held back for now. I am not announcing a release, and the roadmap and this status update are still the primary documents for long-time Elm users to set expectations about this work.
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This video has not yet been released
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Oct 2024 – Kodsnack 604 - Farmer's disposition, with Evan Czaplicki
- Evan talks about the last few years with context on his personal journey and where things are at now.

When will the Elm compiler /
elm/*
packages see updates/releases?

There is no timeframe on this. See
how Elm Core Development works
for more info.

What about other maintenance?

While the complier changes are in a research cycle, Evan has worked with the community on additional platform support and improved binary distribution for the current release.
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Jan 2021 – version 0.19.1.-5 of the npm package was published with an
update
to download x64 binaries for ARM macs to resolve installation issues on the newly released platform.
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Sep 2023 – the
0.19.1 releases
were updated to include a 64-bit Mac ARM binary.
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Nov 2023 – version 0.19.1-6 of the npm package was published with an
update
to remove third-party download dependencies and include the new ARM binaries.