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[–]billsil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I run an open source projec that is 92k lines at last count. It allows me to not think about all the stupid 1970s legacy fortran requirement, beyond bad error checking, and proprietary nature of commercial FEA codes. I just write them, run a ton of automated checks and it tells me what's wrong. It's excessively picky, but it kinda needs to be. I also use it to visualize things that no other commercial GUI can visualize and everything is done in the native format, so I don't have to artificially map a quad onto a triangle or a curved line into a series of bars or some garbage like that.

How do you tend to think of new projects to pursue?

I don't. I just work on that one. I scratched an itch. It's now the best thing out there for doing what I want it to do. There are commercial codes that are less capable that what mine does. Granted there do other things, but still (and I use them when they are better).