Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages?

From my experience, you can't "force" an application (open or closed

source) on customers. It has to be a need.

If it's a need you have, that's a great start.

If it's a need a customer/client has. That also is a great start.

Just make sure when you sign the dotted line for the job that you
retain ownership of the source/ideas/IP, etc.

And finally, be prepared to support that application for a long time.
I hate seeing projects, Open source or not, get left in the dust and
customers looking for a replacement.

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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Douglas Dunn <dunndouglas0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, I'm a young developer, I've been learning RPG, and now I'm looking for
some sort of open source project to build. Since this thread has been going
on for a while, I thought I should chime in.

I've already looked at what is out there, I'm aware of Liam Allen, etc.
What I'm wondering is, what could I build in RPG that fills a real need,
especially as a free, open-source project?

So far, I'm thinking about support for newly-important blockchain (I.E.
Bitcoin), or perhaps something in the shipping/tracking industry, which I'm
sure has been changing a lot? Any ideas, or things someone has always
wanted to see implemented?

Doug

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"I wonder what it would take to make RPG *thrive* though."

Step 1 would be to eliminate all the old-school RPG devs and replace them
with recent college graduates.
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