But I can't count the number of times I've gone to an open-source project and couldn't even figure out what it did.
And I don't consider that to be the lowest bar – any project that wants to get decent adoption should not only tell me what it does, but tell me why I should use it and not it competition. And do both of these things without me having to read the source code.
Just this week - well perhaps last - I was at the homepage of some new language – and I couldn't find any of this nor a code example. This might be a technically fantastic language but if they don't communicate that adoption is going to suffer - and when it comes to communicating pictures have a place.
It had word of mouth and was the only free implementation of an OS that ran ok. Now there are 50,000 tools all free and no one hears what anyone says with all the noise.
But I can't count the number of times I've gone to an open-source project and couldn't even figure out what it did.
And I don't consider that to be the lowest bar – any project that wants to get decent adoption should not only tell me what it does, but tell me why I should use it and not it competition. And do both of these things without me having to read the source code.
Just this week - well perhaps last - I was at the homepage of some new language – and I couldn't find any of this nor a code example. This might be a technically fantastic language but if they don't communicate that adoption is going to suffer - and when it comes to communicating pictures have a place.