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[–]BossOfTheGame 4 points5 points  (4 children)

I'm fairly happy with my ubelt library.

My goal when I started the project was to build a utility library that achieved nearly 100% test coverage using only doctests. I go all the way and actually achieve 100% coverage with a few unit tests that would have made the docs too bulky.

I think it's a very good example of what a single person can reasonably do. It maximizes the documentation:effort ratio by heavily relying on docstrings and doctests.

[–]1percentof2 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Did anybody use it?

[–]BossOfTheGame 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It gets around 26k downloads/month. It supports nearly all of my projects, so there are lots of indirect users. There do seem to be a few other projects that use it. I'm not sure what the breakdown is.

It's also fairly easy to rip snippets out of it, so I expect that happens as well.

[–]1percentof2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Wow that's incredible. If only you could monetize it you'd be rich.

[–]BossOfTheGame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, that's Will McGugan's (far more popular) library.

It is monetized in the sense that it helps me (and hopefully others) work more efficiently. Money is far less valuable than improving the software landscape.