TL;DR An old(ish) guy looking for a meaningful application of his modest coding skills. whoami A semi-retired R&D engineer: “tangible things engineer”, not “software engineer”, with broad (not necessary deep) knowledge and hands-on experience in Physics / Material Science / Chemistry as well as el…

[image] Jake: I have very little knowledge of GUI’s but thought MouseTrap and MousetrapMakie to be interesting. I’d not think it is realistic for me. There may also be other arguments against, but the first one suffice.

[image] The_Mastermage: VSCode Tooling, which just always needs contributors I’ve thought of it, too. Most probably it’s beyond my abilities, too, but let’s see. An important thing for me is also the relation frustration/fun, which may be quite unfavorable in such a project for different rea…

Here is a thought: AI Coding Tools improve quite rapidly. Especially for “boring” stuff they are quite good and usable already. I imagine that VSCode extensions fall into this category (JavaScript/TypeScript definitely does). If you are interested in using that technology generally, then trying to a…

Just to mention that GitHub - domluna/JuliaFormatter.jl: An opinionated code formatter for Julia. Plot twist - the opinion is your own. needs some help to update to JuliaSyntax v1. This is an important tooling for the community and everyone would appreciate work on this, though, I had to admit this …

Just another thought: could you make a tool to help us migrate Documenter.jl documentation to DocumenterVitepress.jl? Both are nice documentation offerings, but I find it challenging to migrate Documenter → DocumenterVitepress personally and it takes some time. If there was a package that did this m…

I’ll take a look: That could be realistic.

Great! If there is any info or thoughts I could add, let me know; I’ve worked with both packages quite a lot! I thought you might find it interesting since it kinda goes along in spirit with your previous packages that you were working on.

I personally find DocumenterVitepress.jl terrible. It was not made with end users in mind. Documentation is harder to read IMHO.

[image] TheCedarPrince: it kinda goes along in spirit with your previous packages First and foremost, with documentation generator for Unitful.jl :grinning_face: [image] Eben60: I’ll take a look: Now, my first questions: What is the rationale of migration to VitePress? VitePress is …

[image] Eben60: What is the rationale of migration to VitePress? None. And keep in mind that VitePress requires external dependencies that are not written in Julia. It simply complicates the documentation builds. At least that is what I remember the last time I looked into it.

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tp2750 July 13, 2025, 4:09pm 60

How about this: JuliaPackageComparisons is looking for a new maintainer?

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