The ABSE/AtomWeaver Early Access Program
Friday, May 7th, 2010I’ve started a few days ago the ABSE/AtomWeaver Early Access Program, a closed alpha test of the AtomWeaver IDE, where a select few professionals participate. More than twenty professionals and two tech reporters have been selected.
The objective of the Early Access Program is to get valuable early feedback from professionals that are actively engaged in Model-Driven Software Generation, or code generation in general. With this controlled alpha release, AtomWeaver has seen the real world, and real developers are putting their hands on this new approach to software development.
While most people have yet to report back, some justifying to be severely constrained by their current work, I am starting to get reactions on their first “impact” with ABSE.
I’ve yet to receive a neutral or negative comment about ABSE, which is encouraging. First reactions have been positive, with adjectives varying from “interesting” to “promising”.
I am also learning a lot about how to properly convey the ideas and philosophy behind ABSE, in terms of documentation and tutorials. As with any new, disruptive technology, newcomers always feel confused about the new concepts, and hardly know where to start or where to go. It is a challenging task to put ourselves in the shoes of a newcomer when we are precisely on the opposite side of the knowledge scale. This is called “the curse of knowledge“.

