It means http://attic.apache.org/
It will be 'frozen' and indication that there is no longer a community around to fix anything, but the last state of it is for anyone to use if they want to. I understand your point about "fundamentally different than the language" part, and that was some of the expert's questions back at the start, "This should be done in a new language", and we rebutted that the effort needed would be magnitudes larger, to to mention the tooling and ecosystem needed around it. Cheers On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:57 AM, Stanislav Muhametsin < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Niclas, > > It's sad to hear these news. I agree with you on on the "falling back to > the grind of doing a lot of monotonous work manually" point. I recently > started work on Java-related project, where coincidentally Hadoop and > microservices are at the core of the system, and the grind you mentioned is > very visible there. But even in non-Java-related stuff, the point seems to > hold still - there hasn't been a "productivity leap", at least on a wide > scale, into a model where programming is done 90% for the business logic, > and 10% for plumbing/monotonous stuff. > > I guess there are many reasons for Polygene to fail to take off, one of > the most big I think is the fact that Polygene tries to build something > that is fundamentally different than the language it is written with. Since > there is no proper native language support, doing things the "Polygene" way > always incurs some mental overhead - something that many developers are not > ready to take on. > > What does the "Attic" here mean? Will Polygene disappear from the > Web/Apache, or will it be put into some frozen state somewhere? > > > On 03/07/2018 02:38, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > >> Gang, >> >> One thing that we didn't manage to do as an Apache project was to build a >> community. On one hand Polygene is too different from "conventional >> programming" for people to get their head around it, and on the other hand >> Polygene is not fashionable in a world where everything is moving towards >> polyglotism, slow networked (micro)services and Hadoop jobs which has >> restrictive execution environments. People in general are falling back to >> "the grind" of doing a lot of monotonous work manually. >> >> Paul has more important priorities in life right now. Jiri and I are >> simply >> too busy with other things. And I think it is time to consider Polygene to >> be put into Attic. >> >> WDYAT? >> >> >> Cheers >> > > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java
