I've been sinking dozens upon dozens of hours over the past few weeks into converting my rewrite of the GNU Backgammon evaluation code from C into JavaScript.
It's all working like a charm so far, and I can (and will!) make good use of it in my own projects, to be sure, but still, I wonder...
Were I to publish it all as a FOSS standalone library with a very permissive license on GitHub or some such, would anyone actually care? That is, would it see any use by anyone other than me, or is backgammon so niche that even the most well-documented, easy-to-use, and liberally licensed web-compatible engine would fly completely under the radar?
I mean, since I'm already making it, I might as well release it, but sometimes it feels a bit silly, to have put forth this Herculean effort to rewrite this entire engine two times over purely to add features to my games that basically no one other than me will think twice about, heh.
JavaScript is annoying, by the way. You'd think that, with me being a C programmer, I'd be fine with flying fast and loose with my data types, but JS takes it to a whole new level...
