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I don’t really know what the future holds, but I’m fairly certain that as long as I can wield a keyboard Projectile will be alive and well.Īnd the magic of open-source might ensure that remains the case even with me out of the picture. I’ll write more on this subject down the line. Still, I think that competition is not a bad thing, and having a project with a lower bar to entry (when it comes to contribution) has its meritsĪs well. Projectile never aimed forĪny form of world domination, and it’s obviously hard to compete with a built-in package, as it has a home-field advantage you can never match. Have stopped using Projectile and think that the project is irrelevant, and I respect their opinion. I’ve read that now that Emacs has the built-in project.el package a lot of people Likely going to remain the same for the foreseeable future. In recent years the focus has been mostly bug-fixes, performance improvements, better documentation, etc., and it’s From time to time projects are more or less done and no additional functionality Frankly speaking, we reached the point where Projectile covered all of my own use cases extremely well a long time ago andĪfterwards I wasn’t spending that much time working on it. It’s still one of my favorite projects and it’s still the one I useĪll the time. So, what has the future in store for Projectile? Does the project even have a future? I’m reasonably sure that without Projectile, I would have never created my latter and better known open-source projects RuboCop and CIDER.Įvery great adventure has a beginning and for me that beginning was certainly Projectile.

I got inspired to work on many other open-source projects.

Long story short - I value a low bar to contribution for my projects more than a wide reach.

I rejected an opportunity to submit Projectile to GNU ELPA and potentially to Emacs itself early on.

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I learned a lot about how to run a open-source project, while running into every possible problem that one can imagine.

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The main package reached over 2 million download on MELPA!.

helm-projectile, projectile-rails, consult-projectile).

Projectile spawned an ecosystem of over 20 plugins (e.g.

Projectile I had no idea how many people were still using it! I’m pretty sure a lot of people hated me bit time over the decision, as it took me way too much time to address the problem.

The simple decision to show a dynamically updated project name in the modeline resulted in years of pain for people using Projectile over TRAMP.

The scope of the project grew beyond my wildest dreams to cover a lot of things I never even thought of.

Use Projectile, but it became quite popular over time and before the addition of a built-in project.el package to Emacs, it wasĬertainly the most popular tool in this area.

I never thought that anyone but me was going to.

That will work on Windows without installing any Unix compatibility packages.Ī lot of unforeseen things happened over the course of the years: (mostly for performance reasons), but it still remains one of very few tools Over the course of the years Projectile moved away from this initial vision

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find, grep, etc), I decided toīuild a tool that’s truly portable and won’t rely on any external commands.

Shelled out to Unix command-line tools (e.g.

Packages that deal with project interaction assumed an Unix-like environment and Using Windows was an option, but not using Emacs was not an option.

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I had some Linux driver issues with my brand new ThinkPad, whichįorced me to temporarily work on Windows and the rest is history. I still remember the humble beginnings of the project, which started out simplyīecause I was frustrated that the venerable find-file-in-project didn’t work Project interaction library for Emacs) had turned 10 years old. I just realized this morning that on the 31st of July 2021, my very first