Was curious to hear how the long-term future would be pitched in the wild, compared to “the letter” … a lot falls apart right here, but mostly between friends and colleagues. Code commits slow and then stop. Or if they continue, they are uninspired, trivial, sustaining; evolution and innovation end. The spirit of it is gone.
Was relieved not to hear even a speck of that, only historical context and eagerness to move forward. Loved the apparent flexibility with focus on prize; no white-knuckled devotion to “letter” versus “foundation” which is placeholder idea rather than an opinion of a hill-to-die-on. I also heard “lean” thinking in there, wanting wise agility to win and carry forward another decade+ rather than name-on-door or not-invented-here syndrome.
All the other */OSS entities are wrapped up in huge issues too so it is not wise to continue “what works” because that too is a Santa Claus and mostly lore+stamina. I feel like it is most realistic to even expect gravity might not take my wallet to the floor if I drop it, one day; just think about that word “wallet” itself now, as case-in-point. Everything stops working at some point. Understanding why is the key, and then not chasing but leading. It is not clique to say we already contain the future in our own dreams, and we have reality in our hands if we go beyond rubberduckies, hobbyists, professionals, and pool together our fates to some real extent. Based on a sound but dynamic foundation of sanity. I can give a lot of landmarks here for reference, but we already have many household names, all over the world. Meteor is on the brink of that kind of significance if we cultivate that spark.
I imagine there is a lot of intellectual and strategic power here to deal with that type of landscape, not just code monkeys or wall followers. We cannot get wrapped up in what the world thinks by default, or gets all excited about and starts yelling. If we had, none of this would be happening. People left the world behind and became programmers in the first eras, it was not normal. Totally abnormal then. Now? Welcome to Earth, powered by programmers… destroyed by one bad idea, but sponsored by the wildest dreams of every prior generation, while we now act as the future reaching back.
We do not want to chase the target. Always account for wind when shooting an arrow. Meteor itself is really a point in evolution, perhaps an edge. It feels like being on the seam between “awesome” and “light fantastic” … right there where the whole plot gets lost. I feel a lot of organic roots still alive here, but without that “self-limiting” aspect tending toward overly safe, soft, slow, weak, etc.
The fact Tiny went public also resets the strategic landscape to totally different physics. Am very glad to be arriving at this particular point. And glad to have had not quite a year to just dream about it and imagine surviving migrating over, which is a huge investment, even an existential-threat level of faith.
In growing fruit trees sometimes you have a very special set of genetics to do, but it cannot survive certain environmental factors. In that case you take a relative from earlier in the history of that “general fruit” and then graft the designer genetics onto the “wild roots” … I feel like Meteor is “wild roots” and what was DONE in the last decade has itself become something which stands next to or above the original code. And being able to win again and make a tradition rather than a codebase only, having a community that can see and spark eras… that is beyond priceless and cannot be manipulated into place. Being able to outdo yourself, with the will to adapt and evolve and let the paradigm shift, then do it all over again… that is something quested after by the best to have lived, not just since 1970. Meteor stands to level the playing field in that context, I believe, again, but much more deeply this time. And some fresh wind in the sail will go very far, like putting in subs when the first string is very tired, then the first string comes back and now we have 2+ A-teams.
There is a lot to say here but I feel like it is a >1 year conversation sparking, and not for the purpose of talk only, but of establishing governance among the parties already involved, especially independents and self-owned corporate entities. We can at any time change the landscape itself with a bit of help from our friends, or even go solo-unicorn if really driven. I have to clap at the diplomacy and the actual “ambassador” role being played there, pending seeing the talk itself. Even eager to find a way to put my shoulder into it and am thinking through specifics on alternatives and options to consider.
@storyteller … the proof is in the pudding and no letter can walk the walk. Being a real person and having depth is what allows people to connect at all, then they get into the details because they care >0% … And being an outstanding community involves flexibility+drive+chill… What a relief to not see a trainwreck in step 0. I feel like there was a huge fatal fall avoided right there, at the most vulnerable time… ( before birth )
And now for the next world.
P.S. Not a huge fan of the name, now. Branding and colors “look sexy” but its substantial concept “space rock hitting planet” as distinguished from asteroid ( “space rock not hitting planet, orbiting; somewhat debris” ) … are outdated now. Assuming it was originally relevant and not just “cool sounding” … it has been landed for >10 years. That previously stellar rock would be cooled off now, and easily mistaken for a boulder native to the planet ( with a crater that gives it away a bit, but soon all the overgrowth will have taken up that evidence too ) … notice how the metaphor holds on branding, but not in our favor right now, though eerily 
I start from the brand pathos now and reason as to what we are even doing. So we landed. NICE! Now what? What are we doing? Galaxy strains the metaphor already dead a while ago, and does not connect. Meteor and Galaxy have no “actual” connection, at least not more than Hand and Galaxy … somewhat celestial? Somehow massive? Otherworldly? We cannot carry forward a name with no relationship to what it is, at least not for long. And, killing a name is a way to signal real change, if it is more than changing a text field only … if it is true art. I feel like all the elements needed to leap are here, and probably reading this thread.
