[M3devel] Rants about an improbable release

[dirk muysers]

If you want to improve your home you go to the builders market and acquire a drill, a hammer and so on. I you have taken a fancy to a programming language, you download and install --or pay for--  a compiler and start to program in it. Not so for Modula-3. Its source code is in the hands of a small community of dedicated people for which its maintenance has become an endeavour by itself. This is laudable and great, but what about the simple potential Modula 3 USER ? One cannot hope that he (or she, let's remain PC) will clone the whole shebang from Github and begin to dabble in configuration files, Python and Shell scripts to build his version of what represents only a tool after all. All he wants is to have a compiler and begin to work on his apps and favorite software projects. So keeping alive a language is not enough, it  has also to be made easily available to those wanting to use it as their tool and who are not interested in compiler building or simply have more urgent things to do. So when will there be the next Modula 3 release?
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