I don’t like the opening sentence
Today, I’m proud to announce a (free and open-source) project that I’ve been working on for many years:
followed by a great deal of high talk. And then only much later does it become clear the “working on for many years” has produced only a github repo with a bunch of Issues none more than 0% complete, zero Closed; and a fancy website with everything labelled ‘Coming soon’, as noted already here.
Exactly! “announce … project” when there’s only ‘thinkware’ is not a judicious choice of words. Yes it would be an “inspiring manifesto” if there were more substance behind it. So far I see only high ideals (which we could all aspire to if we weren’t aware how hard they are to deliver [**]).
The individual may believe themselves to be acting in good faith. Does that mean they understand and are capable of delivering to those ideals? Putting more effort over those “many years” into establishing feasibility; and moderating the language to distinguish the feasible vs. the aspirational would help me share the hope.
[**] Only a few months ago there was talk of another “Dream”. Did anything come of it? I’m not seeing how ‘NeoHaskell’ is going to deliver to those aspirations without another compiler, or at least severe surgery inside GHC.