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Sure, as do most TUIs and a lot of web apps. I'm merely suggesting a hack that goes along with this hack, not the foundation technology for a mono-binary Office

by mhd 6y ago

Sure, as do most TUIs and a lot of web apps. I'm merely suggesting a hack that goes along with this hack, not the foundation technology for a mono-binary Office clone. Re-inventing the UI wheel seems somewhat common within the Go and Rust communities (as is re-inventing everything else), this would just have raw X11 protocol messages via socket as the foundation layer, not Vulkan/GL/SDL. And there just enough to be useful, e.g. text, input, buttons, canvas… For something more serious, I suggest re-inventing PostScript/NeWs as a service, of course.

mwcampbell 6y ago
> I'm merely suggesting a hack that goes along with this hack, not the foundation technology for a mono-binary Office clone. Sure. I just worry that one person's clever hack will then become another person's indispensable tool, which they'll then impose on their colleagues, employees, or contractors, blocking a third person from doing their job. I know a blind person who temporarily lost his job because his employer's largest client required an application that didn't work with screen readers. So I just want to make sure developers are aware of accessibility, and in general, the risks of reinventing things that are necessarily complex.
- mhd 6y ago
  That's one of the biggest issues some developers have: We pride ourselves in the wisdom to see "bloat", but as you say, a lot of complexity arose out of necessity, even if the developer themselves doesn't need it. Privileged minimalism.