See this comment.

@JordanMartinez wrote:

I'm hesitant about including the 'bounty' part of this statement. To me, it feels like PS development is slower simply because there are fewer core team members who understand the compiler (and building languages in general) and have time. I'm not sure throwing money at that problem will fix it.

Moreover, incentivizing some changes to occur could be a bad thing if those changes are themselves bad. For example, some people want PureScript to enable orphan instances. I don't think doing that would be the right way forward, even if someone put lots of money towards that.

@mikesol responded with

I'll leave this for now, although let's open an issue about this. I personally believe that a bounty is less valuable than someone's time, so if we are asking about how someone may spend one's time, I would also include bounty in there.

I have seen two approaches to administering a survey:

1. Use a service
2. Build your own

Both are viable options. Rust does (1) and Haskell does (2).

My personal preference is (1). Even if we build something in PS, from an administration standpoint, there is no guarantee that the survey page or its network calls will go through without incident. Paying for a trusted service greatly reduces the risk. Rust went with Survey Hero because of its reliability in China, and I'd be inclined to do the same. To do this, though, we'd need a company to sponsor some or all of a subscription - either monthly for the period of the survey or yearly if we can't confidently predict for how long we'll need the service.

I've collected a few locations where we can distribute the PureScript survey. I'm also interested in more ideas -- I can always edit this list to add more options!

General Programming Communities

We should post a link to the survey on these larger programming communities:

• Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com)
• Reddit Functional Programming (https://reddit.com/r/functionalprogramming)

PureScript Community Channels

We should post the survey to each of the PureScript community channels. Part of this post should be a call-to-action asking folks to share the survey on their social media accounts, if they are willing.

• Discourse (https://discourse.purescript.org)
• Discord (https://purescript.org/chat)
• Reddit (https://reddit.com/r/purescript)

Related Communities

It would be nice to get feedback from other communities that are related to PureScript, though we need to ask permission from the moderators of each of these communities (not all of which are the same, so we have to ask individually) before posting.

Haskell

• Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell)
• Haskell Weekly (https://haskellweekly.news)

Elm

• Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/elm)
• Elm Discourse (https://discourse.elm-lang.org)
• Elm Weekly (http://www.elmweekly.nl)

ClojureScript

• Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/clojurescript)

Reason

• Discord (https://discord.com/invite/reasonml)
• Discourse (https://reasonml.chat)
• Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/reasonml)

FP-TS (TypeScript)

• Discord (https://discord.com/invite/HVWmBBXM8A)
• Slack (FP Slack, #fp-ts channel)