Re: IKVM.NET: Building a Java VM on the .NET Framework

On 2012-04-09 02:15, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> John Elliot wrote:
>> > It took far too long for them to get around to getting you to give this
>> > talk man.
> That's mostly my own fault for not doing enough to publicize IKVM.NET. 

I launched a project about three months ago, and no-one in the whole
wide world has been interested in it. I hope I don't have to wait 10
years before I find someone who cares! :P

I had sort of assumed I'd get at least one or two people checking it out
after than amount of time, but I've learned it's actually really hard to
get engagement on the internet especially when you're doing relatively
niche, technical or specialised things.

About two days ago I signed up with Google AdWords to look at promoting
it. Not that I'm really that interested in promoting it as I am about
learning about how online advertising works and what I can expect from
it (it's way more expensive than I had imagined it would be).

Anyway, I'm kind of hoping to promote my project as a collaborative IDE
for open-source development. The system I've put together is rather like
a Wikipedia for source code. You can edit functions, unit tests and
benchmark code right in the browser, and then you can run the unit tests
and benchmarks in the browser. Frankly, I think I've been fairly
innovative, because as obvious as it would seem to have a system like
this I've never run into one before.

But, no. No-one cares. :P

I ended up writing my own Wikipedia article for the project the other
day (conflict of interest, anyone? :P):

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JsPHP

Maybe in a few months from now I'll have a few users, and maybe some of
them will be interested and capable enough to help me start getting the
unit tests and benchmarks for the library implemented. It's actually
just one of many hobby projects of mine, and with my other work, I
haven't had as much time for it as I would have liked. I've been a
paying a mate of mine to help me work on it though as it's only had
about two or three weeks development and is still missing a few features.

As a side note, I have to say, I always feel a little sheepish when I
fork someone's open-source project. I think it's a healthy thing to do,
but there is something about it that just seems a little audacious.