miniblog.

Implementation chicken: When there's an obvious feature gap in an ecosystem and everyone is waiting for someone else to write it. I see this most frequently with OSS toolchains. Basic functionality in new programming languages is another common scenario.

I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps. So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter. Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.

Watching Hytale vs Minecraft discourse reminds me of how games feel different when they're new. Single player games have an online discussion that occurs shortly after release. Multiplayer games rapidly develop a meta. I tried UT99 years after release and it wasn't as much fun.