> > On my machine, the outline loads in about two seconds. I'm happy with > that - I don't see how a faster load time would matter. >
Well you may be right about this. Maybe it isn't the speed that matters so much. But when I think about why would I wish to contribute to the open source project. The reason for me is because I love writing code. I love elegant code, I love the "Aha" moments when I rewrite some code so that it becomes shorter, more readable, more elegant and quite often it becomes more performant at the same time. I hate when I see that some code forces CPU to do the unnecessary work. You might say who cares? But I do care. I like to see the code that works as little as necessary. As a Leo developer I wish I could feel good about Leo's code base. I don't like to feel even a slightest shame if someone looks at the deepest layers of Leo and sees there something poorly designed or coded. It really doesn't matter to me who wrote the code. If it is not best possible I feel guilty. I am sad when I see the code smells and can't do anything about it. Maybe if I were writing code for money I wouldn't be able to look at large refactorings without calculating the costs of it. However, since I don't code for the money it makes no difference to me whether it is the large refactoring or adding a new feature. The only thing that matters to me is whether the code would become more readable, more understandable, more manageable or not. Of course refactoring means improving code while keeping the same functionality. If I am not improving the code then I really don't know why would I wish to contribute anything at all? If the performing a large scale refactoring to make code better is boring and tiresome activity then why bothering with open source project in the first place? It is the final result (better code) that matters to me even if no user should ever notice any improvement at all. But more often than not when code gets better, program also runs faster and users are happier. After some code improvements it might happen that a new feature emerges that couldn't possible be found before code cleaning. The bad shaped code prevents new ideas. We can't be sure which great features are we missing because of the code smells that are not addressed properly. Vitalije -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/7a0122e4-ae81-4b5c-bc10-9424f80f66e9%40googlegroups.com.
