Re: [9fans] Can you pass the Advanced Namespace Test?

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2013/3/16 John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>:
> I'm not going to comment on most of this, but I will say something
> about this bit:
>
>> So I try to release ANTS to the Plan 9 community, and I just can't
>> tell what anyone thinks.  Some people say it seems cool, but even
>> though I made all this documentation and ready to use virtual
>> machines, it doesn't seem like anyone is really exploring the thing
>> that I invested all my heart and soul and best efforts in creating.  I
>> thought people would be interested and excited by what I was trying to
>> do, even if my implementation was amateurish.
>
> This is something you will have to get used to. Ideas, whether
> good or bad, usually take a very long time to attract much attention.
> Other people have their own preoccupations and will not normally
> pay much attention to anything you do. If you're looking for
> external validation then you will need a lot of patience. For
> better or worse, that's the way the world works.

It's also a very small, factional community. Perhaps you would
consider giving a demo / presentation of ANTS at IWP9
(http://iwp9.org) this year. I suspect people aren't going to go out
of their way to find practical, personal uses. And I'd also guess that
for many on this list, Plan 9 is more of a hobby than a focus.

--dho