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How does it feel to have worked on a project like this for an entire decade? Are you satisfied with its progress?



I'm quite satisfied with it. I put time into it that I was able, and no more than that; and for that time put into it, it is good.

I have a private TODO list, in point form, that is over 1300 lines long, so there is no shortage of stuff to do.

There was never supposed to be Lisp dialect, object system, FFI, or any of those things; it really was just a specialized text extraction tool.

A decade and 5200 commits later, it's interesting that I'm the only contributor (of any logic). There have only been doc fixes.

I also didn't think that a decade later, there would be more than 5200 commits, almost all of them from only me. There have been only some half dozen contributions from outsiders: most of them documentation issues, and something in the configure script. Third party code I've brought in, of which there isn't much, I took over as if they were my own. I've kind of gotten used to it being that way; if that ever changes, it will be big adjustment from "everything here is mine".


Fascinating, I'm glad it's worked out well!

> I also didn't think that a decade later, there would be more than 5200 commits

Did you originally not plan on working on it for quite so long?




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