Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
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Re: Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
#2That's too bad. I never actually tried Leaf but I loved following the journey.
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#3This is sad, and I feel for you. Your experiences I think mirror in the macro what many of us have in the micro - a side project becomes a love affair becomes something that has to be left aside as the rest of life takes over.
I hope it is merely a hiatus - and I hope too find your next great passion. Keep writing about it - we will follow ...
Re: Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
#4Never heard about that language.
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#5> "And would I want to work on yet another language, knowing I’ve already solved the interesting problems?"
Sometimes this happens to me too, where I want to scratch an itch, and I try to do it by writing real software and using it. In general I have found that to be a bad idea. For those I prefer writing throw-away software, and only writing real software when it's "boring" but useful work.
Re: Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
#6Never heard about that language.
Even this doesn't help http://leaflang.org/faq.html
Re: Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
#7Leaf is a good name for a language.
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#8What he is experiencing is the reality of most people's lives. The boredom and drudgery of doing the hard yards every day. Most people do not have the luxury of doing what is interesting to them. It is a case of just having to knuckle down and complete what has been started.
From my personal perspective, it's nice to have side projects that are interesting and learning exercises. The reality is that if these side projects are actually worth it then they need to be completed. Otherwise they are just a fad and not really worth the effort that might be put into them.
If something is worth starting then it is worth finishing.
Re: Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
#9What he is experiencing is the reality of most people's lives. The boredom and drudgery of doing the hard yards every day. Most people do not have the luxury of doing what is interesting to them. It is a case of just having to knuckle down and complete what has been started. From my personal perspective, it's nice to have side projects that are interesting and learning exercises. The reality is that if these side pro…
I struggled with side projects that I never completed until I decided that I would never do a side project that can't be done in one or two afternoons. There are people out there that can chip away at a project over months or years and I think I just took a while to learn that I'm not one of them.
Re: Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
#10What he is experiencing is the reality of most people's lives. The boredom and drudgery of doing the hard yards every day. Most people do not have the luxury of doing what is interesting to them. It is a case of just having to knuckle down and complete what has been started. From my personal perspective, it's nice to have side projects that are interesting and learning exercises. The reality is that if these side pro…
Yes and no. Sometimes it's not about the destination but about experiencing the journey. From the post it seems like the author extracted the value they wanted to extract over the years. Knowing when to give up is difficult, especially when you've sunk a lot of cost into the project and feel like you have to finish it. The thing is, you don't have to and it's perfectly acceptable to put it on hold indefinitely.
In the end you'll still have all those experiences with you and that's what you paid for with your time.