Undertaking discussion isn't bad by itself. But discussing things and producing nothing is. From these discussions that have already occured, I would have liked to see some resolution. "We are going to tackle x first, we are going to use y technology" etc.
How are you wasting replying to emails and undertaking a discussion.
If you think spending time on a good design phase is a waste of time on such a massive project theres something wrong...hmm, nope I think spending time doing nothing is a waste of time on any project of any scale. Get code in the repo, get people contributing, gather some momentum. Without that we are doing exactly what critics will point out - nothing but arm waving. Making a decision is important, we can change it later. Right now we aren't even at the design stage, so you can't say I'm against "good design" - I'm arguing for momentum on ideas and deciding what to approach first. Currently we have too many options, so I'm going to propose a vote (in the Apache way), just to clear away some of the debris:
Write a crude VM first, from scratch, using other VM's as guidance, but not incorporating code from other projects to avoid licensing issues.
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At least we can see what's happening
