/poll "The safety vs risk of my project is..." "safe and incremental" "building on existing with radical elements" "ground up risky and radical"

What would be an example of something risky/radical?

Good question, and presumably I can't use my own project as an example, so I'd say something like BitTorrent? BitCoin? Visicalc?

I think of radical in terms of how many things - tools or ideas - you can't reuse. So Darklang is radical. Onex is radical (Duncan can't use his project, but I can 😄). @Kartik Agaram’s Mu is radical. The more radical something is, the harder it is also to explain in terms of prevalent terminology because it may not fit into the existing categories. "A new programming language" - easy to understand. "A new database" - ditto. "A new network protocol", "a new os" - ok cool. Which of these is Darklang, or Onex, or Mu?

Yeah, Onex is OS, language, database and protocol. And new UI. 🤪

From the website: "Onex is a mobile app" - ah, got it. 😄

Oh yeah. That too.

radicality: ratio of new and existing tools/concepts // high radicality -> often harder to "explain in terms of prevalent terminology"

Heh, @shalabh, I clicked "building on existing" before I opened this thread 😄 But your list of questions is thought-provoking.