"Code Is the Easy Part": Evan Czaplicki on Building Elm

HN points people to it to understand Elm's design philosophy, such as favoring simplicity over type classes, when they question its choices.

Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, gives an elm-conf 2016 talk on the non-code side of building a language. It covers the philosophy behind Elm's development approach, including batching work and the priorities of different language communities.