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And look at eclipse, modular as all hell and everyone hates it. ;)
by gonzo41 8y ago
And look at eclipse, modular as all hell and everyone hates it. ;)
- DonHopkins 8y agoAnd of course there's X-Windows: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035419 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398ebd47 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39... X-Windows will never die, they'll just keep trying to fix it! (Just like the cute little baby in Eraserhead.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-kI4Qzj9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-kI4Qzj9U
- doomlaser 8y agoI learned to write X-Windows UI code ages ago, and the boilerplate required to do simple things is what got to me
- readingnews 8y agoWhile we can all bash it, I am reading this on X right now. So the modular idea still holds to some degree. :)