if it's a commercial product, they might get your money, but most projects on github aren't
And that worked "got curious, downloaded and installed it" but then hit a bug "Lots of things to click on, and no text editor".
We can see that they are trying to explore using the knowledge they already have, as we might expect.
i don't want other people to use my open source code unless it's more useful to them than the alternatives, and i think they're a better judge of that than i am; trying to convince them to use it would imply i think i'm a better judge of it than they are
i'm always happy to talk with them about it, but i'm not coming from an advocacy perspective, and i think people who are are bad
I'd just think if you write something like a programming language of all things you'd want others to use it and have a pleasant experience getting started.
You might be surprised how many different nuances exist in what motivates humans.
I have even avoided to share code in public repositories, because I didn’t want to be bothered by feedback like yours, because I didn’t bring the documentation up to a level that someone farther away from my little niche need and use case can understand it.
While such feedback isn’t going to kill me, it’s nonetheless one of a million tiny little cuts that my life is more pleasant without.