This are my thoughts:

• I love the way Kris asks kindly but directly some tough questions, I think many people shy away of asking them for fear of burning Evan out, I think he did a great job
• If you are involved with the Elm community, there is likely no new news in this
• Evan hints at some future where Elm has some sort of paid thing (service or feature?) for something that only companies need, but he reassures the compiler and project will remain open source
• He re-estates his preferred way of developing things in private and talking in person to people and not releasing until he feels like he can take the inevitable wave of criticism. I don’t think we are getting any online Evan presence any time soon, so unless you go to the Elm camps and do in person Elm things the online community stays orphan from the creator for now
• I found it interesting the way he explained his search for career development and broadening his technical skills as a compiler author
• I also found it interesting the question from Kris about being so private, how do you do such a good job with presentations and in person events, Evan highlights how he likes teaching and sharing technical things he is passionate about, which makes a lot of sense, he is very good at it with his approach (calm, informed, funny and endearing) (all of this IMO of course)

These are some of the things that come to mind, if you can listen to it Developer voices is a podcast and you won’t miss anything by not watching the video.

Excellent interview! It was interesting hearing about Evan’s struggles with open source from a business perspective. I also liked his knowledge about the historical motivations behind open source.