@louis @craigbro Rust, Zig, Go, Nim, Hare, Virgil, and now C3. Seeing so many languages try to replace C is a little frustrating. I wish people could collaborate more on a smaller number of languages, rather than just try to re-invent a whole language from scratch. Although I know why it happens: people disagree on implementation details, especially syntax schisms form in communities, and it is so easy to start making your own programming language (not at all easy to make it a good language). Schisms also happen for political reasons, or because a big business is suffering from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
My systems programming language is PreScheme, because minimalism and lambda calculus are eternal.
@Oaktag I struggle for the words that will shake people awake. All of these JS excesses were premised on *better* user experiences. The pitch was that they would *improve* sites.
We don't need more than our own eyes to know it hasn't worked out, and that going a different way succeeds more often.
Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text
@shapr one time this happened to me, and my response was to turn off issues on that repo, since I had no intention of maintaining it years after. I don't think I did open source right 😂
@itsmeholland @MisuseCase @clive @ashar That's how you appeal to cold-hearted capitalists, though. That and pointing out that content and healthy workers don't typically take to building guillotines.
FreedomBox 24.17 has been released, adding two new apps!
- Feather Wiki for Personal Notebooks
- TiddlyWiki for Non-linear Notebooks
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-24-17-released/3190
Random thought. The older I get, the more sense #RichardStallman's absolutist stance on free software makes to me. If you can't inspect, or have someone inspect, the source of software you've paid for, then you own nothing. You have no idea what's going on under the hood. You wouldn't buy a car if the dealership told you they were the only ones allowed to perform maintenance or modifications, so why do we tolerate that behavior from proprietary software vendors?
MAGA VS. WOKE
@atomicpoet that's not how I see it. They still have 90%+ of the desktop market. Their mobile OS bombed because carriers hated microsoft and did anything they could against them (I was working in telco land at the time). The server market is very uneven, I believe you're thinking about the cloud. Hyperscalers found it a better investment to spend money on the Linux ecosystem rather than pay the windows tax. Small and medium businesses to this day use way more windows.
@atomicpoet hmmm yes can’t wait for SCOTUS and Trump 2025 to make this all pointless
…let’s really hope it ends up having a positive impact…
IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️
(Boosts appreciated)
The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.
https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230
The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.
Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
anti-witchhunts
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
I write software (C++) for a living.