Cocotron still memorable

Some recently asked on Hacker News “ What is the best code base you ever worked on?” and a couple people chimed in with Cocotron here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819146

Unfortunately the economics of Cocotron don’t really work out, there aren’t enough people who want to port from Mac to PC in this fashion. I did implement a ton of it, but …

  • I wasn’t entirely alone, there were others making important contributions.
  • There is no API design, if you stick to the existing design this make it a lot easier than trying to be creative.
  • There is no organization overhead, I was just writing code and pushing it, no discussion.

Thanks to Lou for pointing this HN post out to me!

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