How to help Euphoria
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Dec 22, 2012
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Forked from Re: Phix features to import into Open Euphoria
Instead of wasting time ...
FOSS works because it's developed by the people who are interested in it or otherwise need to develop it.
In other words, we might be wasting time, but it's our time to waste.
mulling over why Python is so universally accepted and adopted, and Euphoria remains obscure.
I think Ray Smith hit the nail on this over 10 years ago: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/45724.wc
Sure, OpenEuphoria is open source now, but it was really late in the game compared to Python, Ruby, Lua, etc. Python was really early in the game, so it was able to secure the big bucks that made it into what it is today.
And is it really that much more obscure than C-- or Cylon (for example) ?
Then go ahead and rectify the situation.
you will all be better off
Why? How?
I'll finish with some wise words from Ray:
In the end if your not happy with Euphoria you can either help make it better or go somewhere else. Everyone has a choice.
I'll add that simply stating obvious statements like "Euphoria isn't as big as language D" or incendiary ones like "Euphoria sucks compared to language B" are worse than being unhelpful - they distract from the goal of making Euphoria better.
