[Geany-Devel] New Direction for Geany

[Lex Trotman]

Dear All,

Geany having failed at being a small fast lightweight IDE and having
become a chubby middle aged application, its time for a re-think, a
new direction, a fresh start.

Instead it is proposed that Geany embrace the paradigms of the most
successful IDEs (like Emacs or Eclipse) and make coding with Geany
great again.

So looking at those things that are common to Emacs and Eclipse I propose:

1) Geany should change its name to start with an E, that is obviously
neccessary,

2) Eeany should embrace the bloat, incorporate the whole operating
system like Emacs and become an overblown interfering annoyance like
Eclipse,

3) clearly using common UI conventions is important (to Eclipse) but
using custom paradigms is important (to Emacs) so it is proposed that
Eeany alternate between using normal keybindings and using randomly
selected sequences of keys.  This will make editing an adventure again
as you struggle to find the "undo" sequence.

4) Geany is far too fast, so Eeany should incorporate code to perform
bitcoin mining between keystrokes, nobody will notice, and the devs
will get rich,

5) of course great software is not just Emacs and Eclipse, so Eeany
should copy the most important of the paradigms of great software,
phoning home with copious user data which can be sold, again making
the devs rich, and clearly this should be done in secret without any
ability to cancel it, using a spawned process that continues after
Eeany exits (and restarts on boot) without any way of preventing it,
and

6) having gotten all that data it is of course essential that it be
used, so Eeany must incorporate ads, a short video selling insurance
before the compile results display, tooltips suggesting a new
toothpaste to help clean both your code and your smile.

I'm sure everybody will support this initiative to put Eeany where it
belongs in the universe of code development, at the top*.

Regards

* YMMV, press release issued 1 April 2017