# Where is Elm going; where is Evan going

**URL:** https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/where-is-elm-going-where-is-evan-going/9597
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**Created:** [January 19, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/where-is-elm-going-where-is-evan-going/9597 "2024-01-19T23:26:01Z")
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### Author: ![Lucas\_Payr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/lucas_payr/32/4993_2.png) [@Lucas\_Payr](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/Lucas_Payr)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/where-is-elm-going-where-is-evan-going/9597/127 "2024-02-03T12:01:08Z")

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Maybe some context:

The last status update by Evan was in 2021

> [@Status Update - 3 Nov 2021](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/status-update-3-nov-2021/7870):
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> My exploratory compiler work has been going very well! It has been great to work like I used to back in 2011 and 2012, and I wanted to share some of the technical results to give a better idea of what I have been up to. The ideas I will cover here are: dense binary format for Elm types to minimize disk/network usage static evaluation to avoid intermediate allocations primitive types like Int16 and UInt64 If someone were looking into making it really fast and easy to communicate with a datab…

After that he went silent (probably working on Elm-studio). The next public appearance was the talk at strange loop in 2023(That’s the talk that started this thread). In it he talked about a project he has been working on.

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So yeah, I’m just adding one and one together to assume that he is talking about Elm Studio.

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