[clean-list] future of clean

[Marco Kesseler]

> I like the idea and I have another question.
>
> What is the reason that all the 'fancy new features' are developed for
> Windows first and ported to Linux later?

Well, I am not a "Clean developer", but I think that I can answer this
nonetheless: The Clean developers develop on windows. And I believe they
started to do so because they want Clean to be used outside the academic
world too (which is still more windows-oriented than linux-oriented).

> Wouldn't it be a better idea to do it the other way around?

That, I do not know. I guess then the windows users start to complain.
Haskell users sometimes do that.

> I think: if the Clean project wants to be a more serious and succesfull
> opensource project [1], its main development has to occur on Linux. The
> reason, among others, is that the opensource community is much larger in
> the
> Linux world than it is in the MS Windows world.

Well, as I see it, Clean is not really an open source project because it
wants to be in the first place. It is more like a service to linux
programmers, so they can add the support they are lacking.

Now I do think the latter could be more actively supported, but the
question is also is whether there are a lot of linux users that are
willing (and able) to do the work.

regards,
Marco