Finished a project a few days ago with the coolest code I've ever written. Problem: It's a college project, with a totally unrealistic use case and it makes absolutely no sense to continue working on it now :/ How can I let it go?

Continue it as a portfolio piece? Could you change the scope?

I usually start a small bandage project. Something that can be finished quite quickly so usually nothing too serious. For me the idea is to keep the good flow going and to be able to refine the key parts of the previous code even further. This way I usually end up with a small library I can use over and over again and after many projects I have a full treasure chest of these gold nuggets.

Or then just take a nap. You deserve it after a hard work 🙃

@1nfiniteLoop I don't think the world needs any more high performance ray tracers, though :( Furthermore, the code is pretty specific to the constraints we were given. It just doesn't feel right to abandon the code just because the deadline has passed.