Hi Stephanie, On Sat, Dec 30 2017 at 04:55:18 AM, Stephanie Björk <katt16777...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > I would love to maintain Groff after I finish university, which should > be in 10 years' time because I'm still in high school.
After university with a full-time job you will have much less free time (I wish I were still a student...). Why don't you have a try right now? > And since Groff is getting distributed widely and C++ is only getting > more and more popular Little disgression (of course, personal opinion, nothing objective): I think that C++ will face strong competition from new languages like Rust or Go, and decline. I'm primarily a C developer, but if I would need to start a new project I would prefer Go over C++, unless it's really low-level or embedded software, in which case I would prefer C over C++. Also, groff code is quite old and looks more like 'C with class' and doesn't use templates; a real C++ programmer would probably be find the code odd and baroque (I like it because I prefer a lot C over C++). > I am quite certain that someone will have taken the job to maintain > Groff and made a few more release I volounteered to make the next release, there are some technical problems (no access to GNU ftp) but I hope it will be solved soon. > before I even get there. Again, if you feel you are interested in developing into groff I think you should not wait such a long time. There are some big topics, like fonts management and changing the format algorithm into a paragraph-oriented algorithm. I've started to work on the 2nd subject, although due to lack of time I haven't made any significant progress recently. If you are interested feel free to join the dev (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-11/msg00079.html). Regards, Bertrand Garrigues
