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This is such sad news. I remember playing with Cairo a few years ago and the library (and documentation, especially) felt lovingly put together. Few projects
by gorgoiler 6y ago
This is such sad news. I remember playing with Cairo a few years ago and the library (and documentation, especially) felt lovingly put together.
Few projects ascend to the astral planes of immortality. Even Xorg is on the way out. Computer look and feel is very nostalgic and I hope to visit an API museum when I am older, to e.g. look back on fond memories of using repl.it so much in 2020.
(Tip to any young people who read this far: take lots of full desktop screenshots as you work. You’ll enjoy looking at them in 20 years time.)
- smarks 6y agoYes, this is sad. I remember integrating Cairo into a project I worked on a number of years ago. At the time, pulling in an open source project was a big ordeal. You had to figure out how to build it, getting all the configuration options correct, pulling in all the dependencies, configuring them, etc. I set aside a whole afternoon to get it working. Anyway, I pulled it down, built it, and was writing simple drawing programs in about 15 minutes. It was amazing.
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago> (Tip to any young people who read this far: take lots of full desktop screenshots as you work. You’ll enjoy looking at them in 20 years time.) I uploaded a bunch of screenshots to r/unixporn just a few years ago and even those already carry some nostalgia :D
- creata 6y ago> Few projects ascend to the astral planes of immortality. If even Xorg doesn't qualify, which are these few immortal projects?
- shakow 6y agoEmacs, for instance. Now ~35 years and still going strong.
- gorgoiler 6y agoShells, editors, programming languages, the most common core libraries. In the 90s, SSLeay shipped with a cute little shell script that makes a self signed CA for you. It’s still shipped as part of OpenSSL, today.