Wow I am surprised C++ is so popular "* The larger the code base, the less contributors and activity." sounds reasonable but I will assume here that larger code base means more users since its more likely to have more features. But for contributing to code yeah people tend to avoid complex projects, obviously its far easier to contribute in something much simpler. However large size is an inevitable outcome you can only postpone it with clean ups unless of course the project dies in the process. On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:46 PM Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
Slides 5, 8-10 provide an interesting perspective on project size http://www.slideshare.net/blackducksoftware/open-source-by-the-numbers
and interesting conclusions on slide 17 * The larger the code base, the less contributors and activity. * The "most likely to succeed" -- are still small enough for people joining them to have an impact.
where <1MLOC seems fine, and also the accessibility of whole system makes it easier for people to have an impact.
cheers -ben
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Sep 25, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
Totally agree with the slides apart from "Pharo is Small" , the syntax may be but the whole environment last time I checked was 700k lines of code which is huge for a dynamic language. Of course that is far from bad at least for me, I love powerful environments over minimal solutions.
Just for reference, Pharo 5 has: Smalltalk allClasses sumNumbers: #linesOfCode â515500"
This is still a lot, but we should compare against a language + IDE + compiler + collections + version management system + project dependency system + several significant other libraries. This might turn out to be quite small in the end :).
But, one thing I would stress is that "Pharo is Uniformâ. This is what in the end makes it seem âSmallâ.
Cheers, Doru
You reminded me that I neeed to update my "Why Pharo" video :)
Great work
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:43 PM Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote: Hi Stephan,
On 25 Sep 2016, at 13:07, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
I finally found the time to put the slides and narrative together
https://medium.com/@stephan_32833/pharo-50c66685913c#.jeou548z7
Stephan
Great article, super cool slides, well done. I especially appreciate how you guys managed to make so many good points in such a deceptively simple and clear text â that takes a lot of work.
Any chance you would like to submit it too 'Concerning Pharo' publication [https://medium.com/concerning-pharo] ? Just send a submission and I would love to add it.
Sven
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