Compilers as Therapists, or Why Elm is Good for ADHD
summary
Claim: Elm reduces tooling friction so someone with ADHD stops chasing infrastructure and actually ships features. Earlier work with React and Redux plus Electron leads to scattered side projects and zero finished features; switching to Elm produces multiple open source libraries (one actively used by others), two running apps (one used daily), a finished side project, and the confidence to start a company, so the approach demonstrably works.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Compilers as Therapists
- 1:52Outline
- 2:35Disclaimer
- 3:53Symptoms
- 4:55My Experience
- 5:44Effects
- 6:36Tools
- 6:52Story
- 8:24Open Source Commitment
- 11:32Share your stories
- 12:11Listen to your stories
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