Re: Vision for the future...
Jonas Temple writes:
> Rob, would it be possible for you to share with the
> community (your customers) what your vision is for the
> future of Euphoria? Are you wanting the language to become
> widespread or just a niche language with a small number
> of users? What's your 1,3 and 5 year plans?
Of course I want to see Euphoria widely used by
lots of people.
I've never had a 1, 3 or a 5 year plan, (didn't they
disappear with the collapse of the former Soviet Union?).
I enjoy doing this kind of work, and I enjoy trying
to make money at it. I realize that some people
believe that programmers should not be allowed
to make money - they should be required to
donate their life's work for the good of society.
All I can tell you, is that I plan to have a 2.4 alpha-test
release within a couple of months. There probably
won't be any major new features, but there will be
a lot of important small improvements and speed-ups.
And there will be around 20 or so bug fixes.
Eventually more big features will come.
People who judge the progress of Euphoria by the
number of features added to the core language
with each release, are probably the same
people who judge the progress of an airplane design
by the number of tons of weight added with each revision.
I'm working full-time on Euphoria, minus a tiny
amount of time for ListFilter. I did work mainly
on ListFilter for a couple of months to get it up
and running. Unfortunately most of
my time does not (and never did) go into adding new features.
e.g. Web advertising, tech support, answering
e-mail enquiries and suggestions, reading the
huge number of messages posted on this list and
answering some of them, updating Recent User
Contributions, acquiring resources - I recently secured
a couple of hundred additional Mb and 15Gb
more bandwidth for Euphoria. I also recently moved
all the .zips on AOL over to RapidEuphoria, and all
the 45000 mailing list messages over to ListFilter.
Then there are the real and imagined bug reports
to investigate, packages to ship, business license
to renew, tax forms etc. etc.
You also shouldn't judge the size of the Euphoria
community just by the number of people on this list.
Not many people can tolerate the number of messages
per day that this list generates. I've found that most
people who register aren't on this list. Imagine a
parallel universe in which there's another Euphoria
list of equal size (say 400). Now imagine combining
the two universes, so that instead of 70 messages
per day we have 140 per day for 800 people.
How many of those 800 people would continue to
subscribe via e-mail?
So you see, it isn't a linear thing, and a lot depends
on how boring the messages are. We also lost a bunch
of Hotmail and AOL people because of SPAM detection
that people didn't know how to turn off.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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