coding for nothing but coding
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MFW I devote a huge amount of effort to create a developer tool that is poorly understood and not really used despite being very useful for what they were designed to do. 😔 I've tried to simplify my project, and simplify describing that project but it's like trying to simplify Roslyn. There's just too much there to be able to make it simple. Oh well, I guess. I use it in my own code generation projects and it makes them heckin cool. :cool: Do you ever write non-trivial tools that you swear by, but only you will probably ever use?
Real programmers use butterflies
The software we were using was being rewritten and I was a bit bored. First it started out with something to fix the scans that came out of the 100 page a minute copiers. Awesome. 4 hours of work every 2 days cut in half. Ha, winning. Then I got _really_ bored. So I picked up the Acrobat PDF 1.4 Specs. That was about 10 years ago now..
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Yeah part of it is the tool is necessarily niche, as it's intended for developers who are writing code generators. I've created some more popular tools and posted them here, but in one case, a 1st place CP winner, my winning tool was built using the technology provided by this tool - without which it wouldn't have been possible. :-D I'm just trying to give other people access to this tech, not so much try to make the most popular tool. It's a great tool for creating potentially popular tools is what I'd say. :laugh:
Real programmers use butterflies
I think we programmers need marketeers and salesmen. As much as I hate them, we need them to sell our wares.
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I think we programmers need marketeers and salesmen. As much as I hate them, we need them to sell our wares.
I recognize that we need them. I think I'd just rather be able to ignore them and stick to our respective jobs. I've had too many times when sales ultimately dictated deadlines, and led to less than great deliverables.
Real programmers use butterflies
