I've been working on Arraymancer for 6 months now with ups and downs. This is my first big project (and actual the first time I'm developing "for real") and I would like to know how do you keep your energy for the long run.
In my case, I seem to alternate between various modes: * "The algorithm/macros rabbit hole": There is some shiny thing I want to implement well, from scratch, and I spent hours trying different stuff, for example using Nim macros to replicate Numpy-like multi-dimensional slicing or implementing state-of-the-art parallel matrix multiplication. * "The benchmark-er": Let's do benchmark of that new shiny toy, Anandtech-style, and see how many `genericReset` I trigger per second. * "The lazy wrapper-er": Wow, the rabbit hole led somewhere, now I'm exhausted and I want "easy" stuff, let's wrap a library, say from Nvidia. * "The showman": Usually at one point, I feel like I need to release and show something so I go deep into "examples" and "documentation". And then there are some times when: * I just don't want to do anything (took 1.5 months off code in July) * Nim seems to have an axe to grind with you, looking at you `static[T]` and `C++ codegen` So what keep you going ?
