I knew nothing about this project until I saw rants here and on reddit the past week about it. I think many of us have been here; in my opinion (which is just a

I knew nothing about this project until I saw rants here and on reddit the past week about it. I think many of us have been here; in my opinion (which is just an opinion) this guy got in over his head like we all did when we had limited experience in doing a particular project. I have often thought that I could finish a momentum task in x weeks because in my head it really was a few 100 simple tasks and that was it. In reality ofcourse, it turns out to be a 1000 of simple and not so simple tasks, many of which actually were not very simple. And more importantly; I had never done them before. That is not malice, it is just inexperience and this guy really looks inexperienced because he knew this would not hold up when he was pressured to release the source. Keeping optimistic and thinking that he is further than he is even though it is quite provable that he is not, is also a symptom of this programmers disease. It is related, I think, to the 80/20 rule which fresher programmers do not even want to admit to; this is even more extreem as the 80% has not been reached yet, but the author thinks he is actually past the 80%. I could be wrong and it could be malice, but reading his responses and everything I read the past days about this, I would say it's the same as what I had when I was a teenager going with my father to where he worked and claiming that there must be something wrong because why did it take so long to program these computers while I could 'write code really fast'. 30 years later I still can 'write code really fast' but I know that has not much to do with finishing a project (in time or at all). It is insane what he set out to do really; write a language to write a moving project in, including docs and examples etc. For me, if he would've been more realistic about the deliveries/timelines (just take a few years man!), I would've actually sponsored him and if he turns out to not be a fraud I still might. We have not so many people who dream big; we do need results though... Edit: I described the Dunning-Kruger effect; forgot the name. I grew over it by getting more experience (I got into some pretty hairy and complex projects when I hit 18 and that taught me that reality really is very complex).