New version of our software at Atomistix
The 2007-02-13 at 11:01 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under Atomistix.
Yeah! Always a happy moment when you release a new version of your software. Atomistix the company I am working for, just released a new version of ATK. This is a quantum mechanics simulation software. Hard science :)
Ok, but what is really interesting is that we are slowly moving from an input file based system (a big text file with the simulation definition) to a Python script based input. This is challenging for many reasons, because first you give the users access to part of the core of the software in a direct way, and also because people like the idea of one input file you can send to your colleagues over the mail. If you need to send a set of Python scripts, this is not really the same easy approach (so we will have to manage the two input systems). A balance to find, between power and ease of use.
Anyway, if you are providing software to your customers, you should really empower your users with great api in your tools, You cannot expect that people will use only your tool, they will and need to combine your tool with others. Give them the ability to do that with ease and they will use your software even more. ATK is such a tool.
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