On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 12:42 -0700, Mike Gran wrote: > > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnu.org> > > > 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.) >
No Mike, I use guile-ncurses for a little thing to peek stock market. ;-P And TTN, your work is nice. We just don't have a web community yet, so many folks and projects are unrevealed. > -Mike >
