Adoption and longevity

Adoption (and contributor adoption) is important for longevity.

What makes people adopt or contribute? What scares them away?

Reasons advanced not to use an UI library:

• too complicated to extend
• too complex
• look ugly but are shitty to customize
• discontinued, abandoned, unsupported
• based on some other libraries (complicated dependency stuff, -> e.g. bindings)
• creating a window should be as simple as a single function call
• locking up on specific stack of libraries/bindings/technologies excludes using with other set of libraries/bindings/technologies

Reasons advanced not to contribute to a library:

• no clear project goals or structure what is being worked on by who
• project comes up with some custom fancy coding style that makes dfmt unusable and scares away contributors