On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 16:29 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote: > a) perhaps focus on 2 or 3 core systems and make those work as close > to flawlessly as you can.
To me, Windows and OSX are 'niche' systems .. however half the existing developers and many of the new people coming along are using OSX, and the other half of the new people coming along are using Windows .. Linux people are very conservative, typically amateur**, and already have a wide range of toys to play with already. In fact, I think part of the appeal is that it DOES build on many systems. ** by that I mean they're interested for 'non work' reasons: eg have some fun with a new language. Felix was, in fact, originally developed for a commercial requirement (a telco system). Accepting 'bugs' do exist in the language semantics .. the 'core' system has been stable enough for years. It's just that everyone seems interested in the 'sexy new' features which of course aren't as stable .. the stable part is your boring old stuff like lexically scoped first class functions, sum and product types, seamless binding to C .. etc. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
