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Won't be using this suckless format. Pretty useless. The real image formats took effort and are mature. This is just a more compact, less useful hacked out vers
by cplease 11y ago
Won't be using this suckless format. Pretty useless. The real image formats took effort and are mature. This is just a more compact, less useful hacked out version of netpbm etc. Being easy to parse is no particular virtue. Use libraries with good APIs.
- matthewbauer 11y agoI've always thought of suckless.org tools as more of an educational tool than anything. Certainly some people use them in their day to day lives but for me it's always been like "What's the simplest way to do X?" It gets you thinking about the complexity of modern software and hopefully makes you question your assumptions. But yeah, pretty useless.
- nsajko 11y agoDid you try dwm?
- jerf 11y ago"The real image formats took effort and are mature. This is just a more compact, less useful hacked out version of netpbm etc." That seems less like "criticism" and more like "a summary of the blog post". (Sorry, I have to admit I'm developing a pet peeve around people echoing back things the original author already said but acting like it's a new criticism.)
- stepvhen 11y ago> Use libaries with good APIs That's the opposite of the suckless philosophy.