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Popularity (was Re: SLAYER announcement ...)
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Mike Gran |
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Popularity (was Re: SLAYER announcement ...) |
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Sun, 5 May 2013 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>
> As Guile-SDL maintainer, i wonder what i can do to attract the same
> audience, whether or not it is worth expending the energy to do so, in
> what ways have i failed to encourage organic additive (as opposed to
> parallel) hacking, and how wonderful/terrible it is for GNU to be so
> loosely coupled.
Working on a library or framework is always a thankless task, since
so few programmers want to use the unproven. Gtk would not be where
it is if it weren't for the co-development of Gimp, an end-user
program.
Getting someone to try an end-user program is easier than getting
a programmer to try out a library. But that is difficult as well.
Since every essential end-user program has been written -- all new
work just re-mixes the old ideas in either shinier or deeper ways --
few people are in "need" of new software.
But there is always space for new diversions: there still seems to
be a market for something short, easy to run, and entertaining.
The Flash or HTML5 games model, essentially.
One might consider writing an end-user program first,
and then note how it is built upon libraries that can
easily be reused.
(And speaking of libraries that will never be used... guile-ncurses
v1.4 dropped last week. That'll never have any users because the
intersection in that Venn diagram is too small, consisting mostly of
me. So, I write it for myself. Maybe I should follow my own
advice above.)
-Mike
- SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, Panicz Maciej Godek, 2013/05/04
- Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, John Darrington, 2013/05/05
- Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, Stjepan Horvat, 2013/05/05
- Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, Panicz Maciej Godek, 2013/05/05
- Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2013/05/05
- Popularity (was Re: SLAYER announcement ...),
Mike Gran <=
- Re: Popularity, Frank Terbeck, 2013/05/05
- Re: Popularity (was Re: SLAYER announcement ...), Chris Vine, 2013/05/05
- Re: Popularity (was Re: SLAYER announcement ...), Nala Ginrut, 2013/05/05
- Re: Popularity (was Re: SLAYER announcement ...), Ludovic Courtès, 2013/05/07
- Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, Panicz Maciej Godek, 2013/05/05
Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package, Javier Sancho, 2013/05/06