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

John Elliot wrote:
> 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

If you're going to make the analogy, at least complete it. It's more like
masturbating and then donating to the sperm bank, there at least a chance
that something good might come from it (and you might not even know about
it) :-)

> 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.

Yeah, that's the point where (as a techie) you discover that sales people do
add value. At the same time, it's also easy to overestimate the value of
your own solution. As an example, I plugged IKVM.Reflection a little bit in
my talk and afterwards someone was interested in it and did some prototyping
and discovered some missing functionality (I had not implemented case
insensitive member lookup, because I though no sane person would use that).
I'm now adding that functionality, but from that persons point of view
they've taken a pretty significant risk (investing the time to write the
prototype) with currently still unclear rewards. In my experience this
happens a lot with software, so people are (rightfully) reticent to try
something new. A lot of NIH is actually rational behavior.

Regards,
Jeroen