SERF

[richmond62]

Dan Gelder just stopped all work on SERF, even to the extent of refusing to talk about it.

[tperry2x]

Dan Gelder just stopped all work on SERF, even to the extent of refusing to talk about it.

That is very odd. To spend that much time and effort on something, and then to lock it away like that.
It's a shame, as if this had gone multi-platform, perhaps we'd be typing this on serfTalk [dot org] now?

I don't suppose he's had a change of heart and can be coaxed to work on anything with us - for the open source community? That's an extremely long shot I'd imagine if he's given up on the whole idea. A real pity.

[FourthWorld]

Stacks viewable within other stacks, a shipping feature in Gain Momentum in the mid '90s, proposed for LC nearly 20 years ago:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2786

As for Dan, I had the pleasure of talking with him a few weeks ago. He's as bright and facile as I recalled from our old exchanges in Usenet's comp.sys.mac.hypercard.

I can't say why he moved on from Serf, but I'd wager it's just a matter of time. He has many interests, and seems well enough employed that he doesn't need to gamble on a dodgy startup to pay the bills. I have the impression that all the things we've seen from him over the years are just the highlights of his passionate curiosity able to find expression through good programming habits.

[richmond62]

I wonder why stacks viewed within stacks was not, in the end, taken up.