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

On 2012-04-09 17:03, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> John Elliot wrote:
>> 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
> 
> My advice would be to work on it because *you* care (and enjoy it). Maybe
> someone will join, maybe not, but at least you should have fun.

Man... I promise I'm not going to make a masturbation analogy. Oh.
Whoops. :P

Seriously though, I do only do the projects that I'm interested in and
find enjoyable. It's annoying though when you know you have a solution
for problems that people have, but you can't find the people with those
problems to let them know.

The other thing is that over my 12 year career as a programmer I have
almost always been working on projects by myself. But I enjoy working on
projects with other people too, and don't get as much chance to do that
as I would like.

> That's has always been my motivator for IKVM.NET (and still is). I work on
> it because it is fun and if someone finds it useful, that's a great bonus.
> 
> (To clarify [for someone else reading this], just because I do it for fun
> doesn't mean I don't take it seriously, I do take it very seriously.)

And you've done a world class job with it man, I'm totally impressed.