Ascension - along an unknown road

Some people asked if I have a roadmap for Ascension. Will it be more like a viewer or an editor? What features are you going to implement? To be honest, I’m not sure. Primarily I aim to create the best ASCII art viewer around. On the other hand Ascension is already capable of editing and resaving all supported ASCII documents using the proper encoding. I have no plan to drop that support, why should I? So let’s say it is not just a viewer. Anyway, at first instance I want to develop viewer components and later releases will very likely add additional editor capabilities. I can imagine an image to ASCII conversion or an implementation for drawing block ASCII (CP437) and modern ASCII (Unicode). First release will be in a few weeks. Of course Ascension will come with a beautiful UI, stunning interface icons and great usability. But these features are expected on Mac OS X, a platform where Ascension even is unrivaled. Ascension is related to ASCII art and I’m curious to find out where this unknown road leads us. 

Photo by Jean-Pol Grandmont