[technomancy]

The docs for using QMK are pretty good, but trying to actually understand the code made my head spin; that's why I decided to write my own firmware. Right now it doesn't have any of the fancy features of QMK, but it currently clocks in at under 200 lines, so I have a suspicion it'd be easier to implement those features from scratch in Microscheme than understand their current implementation in QMK.

[Syzygies]

There's a middle ground. One wants to take advantage of the prior work supporting all these keyboards, while improving and/or making more understandable the core keystroke processing logic. Develop a user language for this logic, that translates to C code that can be included in QMK?

[technomancy]

If the root problem with QMK is that there are too many moving parts, adding a completely new language and compiler into the mix seems like a step in the wrong direction.

The extra features that QMK has and Menelaus doesn't aren't really all that appealing to me to begin with.