> In my opinion the way forward is for enough people to start reading > the code, patiently and diligently, in their own rhythm. Once there is > a critical mass of developers who actually understand the code, Which will never happen because those people today who want to code might no longer choose C for good reasons (for such a large project)
And more than that - starting with Vim',s code base is a huge undertaking. Rule of thumb: Reviewing code takes 50% of the time it took the author to write ! (Which means a lot of time -> nobody can do this in his/her spare time IMHO - without sacrifying family personal goals and the like) Thus its even more important that we try to turn Vim into kind of "business" model - because "specialization" is the engine of todays world - even more for complex software like Vim. Libraries such as libuv just do that: they forward the task of having unique interfaces to a central place - and often its a good idea. I asked in 2010 whether Bram would be willing to spend more time on Vim if he got payed (didn't get a reply that time): reference: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/43b6gsHh4Ok If he had I would have tried starting crowd funding campaigns that time. And that's why I hope that tarruda turns this into a business (for everyone) - so that he (and others) can keep working on their code plugins / parts of vim. Whatever the outcome will be - we'll be smarter afterwards :) What did I learn from the mailinglist recently? The more the merrier. The usual problem is that people have to give up to make a living (eg ensime project), quote from its readme: "A quick note on status: Events in my life have conspired to give me less free time to work on ENSIME." And this is happening to a lot of open source projects (wasting a lot of time of those people who invested some time on such - eg my writing the first ensime frontend for Vim - which I had to give up for time/money reasons, too). What tarruda is doing is the right thing - and I hope that he creates kind of market place for proposals/ people joining them (offering funding) / and programmers saying "for this money I'll get the job done". Then we'll have a healthy community (IMHO). Again - you are free to think differently. I'm pretty sure that tarruda will break a lot of things (by accident). But there is still a chance for paying off in the long run. Marc Weber -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
