Re: [Async] Naming land grab?

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-10-09 01:49:53

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 6:27 PM Klemens Morgenstern <
klemensdavidmorgenstern_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> ...I obviously think my library is great and will attract users,
> especially younger ones that do not love callbacks as much as you.
>

Okay, that's fair. So in which places where callbacks are currently used,
does this library offer the alternative?

Thanks

> But you can be very sure, that I am absolutely confident that this library
> would get users without being in boost and I would urge you not to assume
> these kinds of motives.
>

Why not get them then? Have you reached out to any of the forks? Do you
have a channel where people outside the Boost community came to visit while
you worked on the lib? Did you announce the development of the lib on
Reddit so people could follow and weigh in? Did you find other projects
that might benefit from using your library, and offer them a pull request
where you integrate your library as an example to show them how it can be
improved with your library? In other words was any there any effort placed
into Boost.Klemens.Async other than the bare minimum of what is required to
write a library which is to just sit down and over a continuous or
intermittent period and simply write it unassisted and without input, and
then submit it for a review?

And let me ask you this, now that I have taken the time to elaborate in
sufficient detail additional methodologies and markers of success which may
be applied to library development, what do you think should be done with
that information? Speaking for myself if I had done the same with one of my
libraries, without going to reddit first, without announcing it first,
without shopping it around to other projects to see what they think,
without offering to integrate it, without constantly pestering Peter (or
Chris, if he answered messages) for advice on how I can design my library
to be better, and just carried on developing in a vacuum, then just collect
it up and plop it down on the mailing list telling everyone else to review
it and shove it into Boost because "we have to put it in Boost because it
is great and young people don't like callbacks" - I don't think I would
feel very good or proud about that.

Now that I've said all that, does any of that resonate with you? Does it
inspire you and make you want to do more, so your library can be the
absolute best it can be? Is it too much work to do these things? Do you
care about setting an example for others? Or perhaps you just know that
your library is so great, that these things are not necessary, and want to
signal to future potential library authors that if they, too, are confident
that their library is "great and will attract users, especially young ones"
that there is no need to push themselves to do more when more can be done.

Thanks