It doesn't help that "Akrides" sound like a Bond villain EvilCorp run by Dr Ambergris whose face is horribly disfigured from a series botched face lifts that's plotting to populate Mars with big boobed clones running around dressed only in brassieres, just like his lead concubine, Dorothy "Dirty" Sanchez (Don't blame me for Kam Fleming's knack for double entendres...) who leads his team of equally big boobed secret helicopter pilotresses.
This is, of course, ridiculous, and Dr. Ambergris is just an amalagam of Muammar al-Gaddafi and some 2nd rate wannabe strongmen not worth mentioning that I made up for fun.
It splits the community and number of possible volunteer hours for one. It also splits the canon into different versions. More projects fight for the attention attention (and possibly donations) of the audience.
There are lots of reasons it could be preferable to centralize. OTOH their mission is limited and some competition is healthy, if only to explore alternative ways to do things.
More to the point, if the police or whoever shoot someone in self defence, that someone is "killed". If I, or the police shoot someone for fun, it's "murder". In both cases the victim is "killed"
Toning down aggressive phrasing is not "doing a 180", calling the change from "only losers left at GitHub" to "the engineering excellence has left" lying seems disingenuous.
I get the impression that someone doesn't like Java and used chat gpt to create a one-to-one typescript port.
I dislike Java as much as the next guy, but I believe the true value of tools (and this tool in particular) is in the embedded wisdom and experience of their creators/Terrence Parr. Just generating a functionally equivalent port doesn't add much value.
That said, that's just a first impression, I have no idea what motivated this fork
Could you give a concrete example concerning what sort of notation caused you difficulty in the past? Asking because it seems odd to me that you feel you need to learn „all“ the notation to get started.
Starting in elementary school you slowly build up topics, mathematical intuition and notation more or less in unity. E.g. starting with whole numbers, plus and minus signs before multiplication, then fractions and decimal notation. By the end of high school you may have reached integrals and matrices to work with concepts from calculus and linear algebra…
It makes little sense to confront people with notation before the corresponding concepts are being taught. So it feels like you may have a different perspective on notation as a layperson that are no longer obvious to more advanced learners.
This is, of course, ridiculous, and Dr. Ambergris is just an amalagam of Muammar al-Gaddafi and some 2nd rate wannabe strongmen not worth mentioning that I made up for fun.