Re: Promote Euphoria - MAKE A PAGE ON WIKIPEDIA
- Posted by achury Sep 19, 2020
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Nice theme.
Somewhen I take a look here to see if there are interesting news. I am not currently active Eu user, but I am know and love this language since the 90s.
Really this community is very outdated, example there is not important presence on social media. Many if the old euphorians (including me) were DOS users doing DOS programs.
When Euphoria become free software there was a lot of talk on several places, the community become very active and I remember postings here about Eu rising positions on Tiobe ranking.
I promoted Eu on FreeDos community, got the DOS package included on FreeDos mirrors. I remember when Eu4 RC was published, there was a DOS-only package available for download, and that was the more popular download for some weeks!
To get Eu4 working finally was broken DOS support, even ED editor was broken. There was an ugly time when we have a nice new interpreter, but not functional IDE, win32lib even ED were not working. Wx library on a permanent development but not long term stable release. This way the language could not to hook so many new users.
After initial interest, appear thar open source community lost interest on Euphoria.
I think is important to get new blood here, get young people interested on Eu programming.
I think the promotionplan must include tasks like:
1- Release a stable minor updates for interpreter bug corrections, no new features. (When people see last stable dated 5 years ago, think that is one more abandoned project.)
2- Release stable release for easy-to-use functional graphics libraries working on any supported OS
2- Release a good stable IDE and Window designer working on any supported OS. At least a good Windowed editor may included on basic package. (I love ed editor, but it will not impress any young programmer)
Only this way new people will love the language, and we can begin as community doing promotion to new users:
4- Video tutorials for simple programs and graphic programs.
5- Simple materials to support teachers and encourage them to include Eu as material on their courses. Thinks like using Eu for physics calculations for high school students. May be publish Eu courses on platform like coursera.
6- Presence on social networks.
Just my ideas based on that I have seen... The new people need an stable and complete environment, not an under-construction language.
Regards
Marco Achury
