Re: Euphoria isn't dying - just needs a jolly good kick!
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) May 04, 2016
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It would be a massive gain for the Euphoria community if Pete himself decided re-join it, because he is a very talented developer. Is there something we can do to woo you back, Pete?
Actually, I'm quite glad that Pete has put so much effort into keeping Phix alive and relevant.
And yes, I say this even after noting that for more than the past 6 months, Shawn has been the only one developing OpenEuphoria: http://scm.openeuphoria.org/hg/euphoria/
With the new Linux/GNU port, and the addition of multithreading, Phix has become more exciting than ever. http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/129591.wc http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/129046.wc
An extra nice feature of Phix development is that there's zero C code - the only langauge needed to make Phix is Phix. Whereas, one typically does quite a bit of C hacking when developing OE...
As Shawn is effectively the only one working on OE development now, both projects are now both developed by one-person teams.
OE might be ahead in one or two minor aspects, but I suspect Phix will catch up in good time. We might even come to a point where we drop the current OE codebase and adopt Phix instead.....
