Sometimes I feel that the openness of development in some projects today (especially in open source ones) somehow nullify the charm of finding a new release and discovering all the little new bells and whistles.
I remember many years ago when I was young and didn't have an internet connection, my friend got the new version of a music player we used on a CD from another friend. I hadn't seen it or read about it before installing it, and had a genuinely fresh and enjoyable experience trying it out.
An open source project that I like, follow and contribute to had a new stable release a while back. While reading the release notes, I noticed the number of new features added in the span of a few months were staggering, but the magnitude of which I never noticed because I was always on the trunk build.
Sometimes I wish for that childlike curiosity, suspense and surprise that accompanied these kind of things.
I'm sure all the Textmate users will be pleasantly surprised when a new, rewritten, fully polished version of their editor will be made available.
I remember many years ago when I was young and didn't have an internet connection, my friend got the new version of a music player we used on a CD from another friend. I hadn't seen it or read about it before installing it, and had a genuinely fresh and enjoyable experience trying it out.
An open source project that I like, follow and contribute to had a new stable release a while back. While reading the release notes, I noticed the number of new features added in the span of a few months were staggering, but the magnitude of which I never noticed because I was always on the trunk build.
Sometimes I wish for that childlike curiosity, suspense and surprise that accompanied these kind of things.
I'm sure all the Textmate users will be pleasantly surprised when a new, rewritten, fully polished version of their editor will be made available.