OpenEuphoria

Re: A personnal view on open source and euphoria in particular.

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at ?mx?de> Aug 01, 2007
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jacques deschênes wrote:

> Open source is not about everyone going is own way, its about collaboration.
> Everyone as is preferences and is free to express them. But at some point to
> go further everyone as to accept compromises.  But it seem that some people
> just can go that way.  They have to go their own way, whatever others thinks.
> I have no problem with that as long as they distribute their own softwares
> rather
> than trying to impose their view to a group.
> On this list I see a lot of arguing about this and that. I personnaly made a
> proposition about @ oprator a few days ago but I saw that their was no support
> for it so I didn't insist. I don't want to waste my time an energy in endless
> arguing. There is to much of it on this list.
> Lately a was checking the figures on  http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
> and here some constatations:
> 1) there was a time when euphoria ranked in the first 50 now it dropped in the
> 50 - 100 slice.
> 2) language like lua an ruby that where created after euphoria rank a lot
> better.
>    for july 2007 ruby is ranking 10 and sharply rising in popularity
>                  lua  is ranking 18 and also sharply rising in popularity
> 
> Why is this so? I have no answer, but I know that both support OOP.
> Ruby is essentially OOP and lua is defined as multi-paradigm in wikipedia and
> support oop construct.
> 
> Its not that I'm advocating oop here as This discussion as already been done
> and we know the opinions are splitted.
> 
> So the question is what to do to improve the health of euphoria and give it
> a better future?

I think you've already mentioned the main point.
In another recent post you wrote:

| I predict the fall of euphoria if it stay as disorganinized as it is
| at this moment.

I share this worry.
At the beginning of this post you wrote:

| Open source is not about everyone going is own way, its about collaboration.

_Successful_ open source projects are aware of this fact, and care for
ways how to collaborate well organized and productive.
OpenEuphoria currently looks and sounds to me like an orchstra without
motes and without a conductor. But nobody would expect an orchestra to
play good music that way.

Regards,
   Juergen