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Unladen Swallow looked very promising, came out with lots of excitement and news. It overannounced and underdelivered. I tend to prefer underannouncing and over

• rbanffy 16y ago
  If you never fail, you need harder things to do.
  • JoachimSchipper 16y ago
    On the other hand, if you never publicly fail you may just be prudent. Or paranoid. Or depriving yourself of some beneficial pressure. But it's not quite as clear-cut as you make it seem.
  • ot 16y ago
    IMHO, ambition is not publicity. Setting high ambitions doesn't mean make big announcements like "make python 5x faster" without any evidence that the approach is promising. OTOH the pypy guys, for example, have kept a much lower profile but much higher ambitions, like write a completely new compiler toolchain with a novel architecture and then implement python on top of it. I wouldn't say they didn't have "harder things to do".
• malkia 16y ago
  "I tend to prefer underannouncing and overdelivering..." An example of this would be Mike Pall and his LuaJIT project.
• gintas 16y ago
  > I tend to prefer underannouncing and overdelivering... Yes, assuming that you hear about the project at all. Overannouncement is lying, but it does get you more publicity.