>>>Do you understand, Mike? 20+ months of devotion to you, and others, and not one person has
>>>stepped forward for this very reason. Why is that? Think about it.
>>The reason is other people have values, goal, priorities, and ambitions that differ from yours.
>>How come my open source projects are being developed by other people?
>
>There is one reason, and one only, why nobody has stepped forward. The level of expertise certainly exists.

And I just told you what it is.

They don't see the same value in it they do.

You could try to make up for it by being charming. Being attentive to other people's wants and needs and trying to demonstrate value of your product in a context they can understand.

But you go the opposite route. A total turn off.

If you don't understand and acknowledge that, other people's values, why would any one want to collaborate with you?


>>Maybe because they are working on their own project and wondering why I am not helping them.
>>
>>What you're doing sounds difficult and I hope that the challenge is rewarding for you. If your reward
>>hinges on the approval of others, that's a moving goal post. If your project is successful, you will
>>have supporters and accolades, but with that territory comes critics and naysayers. It won't change
>>anything.
>>
>>And what you're creating already exists, with massive support and a community (hard as it is to
>>believe) more robust and active than VFP's ever was. It's Python.
>
>*SIGH* Non-sequitur again. It's not the same, Mike, and you know it. It's not even close.

How many websites are written in VFP compared to Python?

How many robotics projects? Statistics libraries? Game engines?

How many 12 year olds are using VFP vs Python?


I do most of my work in Java and JavaScript.

You know what I'd really like. JavaScript without that curly braces. And no ENDIF. Make it whitespace sensitive, like Python.

Low and behold, they have something like that. It's called Coffeescript.

Instead of && you get to write "and" and there is no parenthesis around the conditional of the if. Guess what, it looks *exactly* like a line of FoxPro code.

Not only that but it makes writing adhoc functions and objects very nice syntacitcally. Worth a look.

Anyhoo, here's my point.

There's tons of cool stuff happening right now and there is huge momentum in a few languages and people that are likely to volunteer are going to volunteer there.

There's probably a few hundred people in the world that care about VFP's exact syntax and you've managed to piss most of them off and you don't seem able to see it and you don't seem able to accept anyone's input... and...

Why again do you expect people to collaborate?

Hey, take it from someone who knows.