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I agree with the GP that it's very difficult to get contributors if the project is not usable. Reading the post in reddit, it looks like just a call for help for an empty project.
But looking at the repo linked in the post https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9 and the demo, it looks like you have something that is already working.
Also, what does this mean in the readme?
> If you're brave enough, change the pathnames in main.lisp and eval the buffer.
I see no pathnames in https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9/blob/main/main.lisp I don't use CL, so perhaps I'm missing something, or it's an outdated instruction.
Another important thing to get users (and later contributor) is a complete idiot proof method to install the project and run the demo [1]. something like "git clone & make demo" or whatever is the correct syntax for that spell.
[1] I recommend to read an old post by Joel Spolsky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
which is currently under 10,000 LoC: https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/tree/master/src/srf
Yes I think you should spend some time cleaning up your PoC into a real, usable project. Write a nice readme, get it so anyone can run it quickly and easily, etc. In my most recent github project I released [1] I also used DALL-E to make a nice header to the README, which can also help make it feel like a solid thing to be worth checking out imo.
[1] https://github.com/gfodor/p2pcf
As far as this thread relates to lisp, I have written OpenCascade bindings for CL:
https://github.com/awolven/oc
A truly new geometric kernel would be great, and it's been a dream of mine, but I have too many other things that need to be finished before I start writing one.