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That's... certainly one way to create a community, but not the one I'd go for. The other way to make a community is to have things "just work" as much as possi
by eternityforest 4y ago
That's... certainly one way to create a community, but not the one I'd go for.
The other way to make a community is to have things "just work" as much as possible, and become a standard to the point where only masochists commonly use anything else.
- jdougan 4y agoThere are a surprising number of masochistic devs out there.
- eternityforest 4y agoThere really are... which is why projects should decide up front who the target audience is, and not try to please the suckless crowd if that's not the target. The downside is of course, the suckless crowd can get totally left out when the whole world switches to the new standard(see The Init System That Starts Flame Wars), which is almost unsolvable since there's no product that can please both minimalists and those who want things to just work with zero tinkering, and not much reason for mainstream users to pay attention to anything but the popular standard.
- atemerev 4y agoAh, a young Rust developer.
- eternityforest 4y agoNot quite, more of a Rust admirer. I'd love to use it but I don't have any use case for something that is both that low level and not an embedded platform where you still need C++. Sometimes I look into using it for personal projects, but always wind up using some Python/JS/Dart instead, since whatever it was I thought about doing in Rust usually already exists as a library.