Never make new year's resolutions - dumping CodeSnip Belvedere

Over 9 years I've had three attempts at creating CodeSnip 5. All have been very ambitious.

The latest was CodeSnip Belvedere, rashly announced on new year's day this year. Now I never normally make new year's resolutions, and I should have stuck with that tradition! Of course Belvedere foundered - it was way too ambitious. Again. I was overwhelmed right from the start. Just look at the repo where there have been bugger all commits.

So here's a new announcement I can stick by: Belvedere is dead, abandoned, gone.

The idea to rebuild CodeSnip from the ground up was an attractive proposition, but it was way too much work. Right from the start I seemed to have an inkling I might have bitten off more than I could chew, because I even queried the wisdom of the new year's resolution in the announcement itself!

And that's what all the failed attempts to create the next release have in common: the plans for the new version were always too ambitious.

Maybe I've learned my lesson! Watch out for plan B (or C, or D, or ...). I have another cunning plan. But this time I'm going to think it through a bit more before announcing it. Maybe not on new year's day 2023 though, eh?