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This is extremely useful, and the page is beautifully written. Some people write absurd electron behemoths, and then there's this jewel of elegance. Could thi

This is extremely useful, and the page is beautifully written. Some people write absurd electron behemoths, and then there's this jewel of elegance. Could this be compiled as an αpε? Such a thing would make many heads explode.

abainbridge 4y ago
I think the Xlib dependency would prevent compilation as an αpε. I put some effort into doing X11 from scratch (without Xlib or Xcb) to make this possible. Or at least, my aim was to be able to build with musl libc and generate a single executable that would run on many different Linuxes. https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/df_window_x11.cpp https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/.... It is janky though.
- 082349872349872 4y ago
  One advantage of speaking X directly for small projects is that one can allocate fixed ids.
- csdvrx 4y ago
  Super interesting! > It is janky though So what? It can be improved :) Would you like to try to make an APE out of it? It would then be not just different Linuxes, but also MacOS and Windows, a bit like https://x410.dev/ https://x410.dev/ or the free software vcxserv https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ We have discord. You should join us! FWIW I'm currently working on a DNS server with nice extra features like Multicast for mDNS/Bonjour: it could be used to publish the X server DISPLAY and make it accessible via service-discovery
  - enriquto 4y ago
    > We have discord. You should join us! Who is "you", here?
    - csdvrx 4y ago
      People who try to hack stuff with APE - here abainbridge but hopefully, you too: the more the merrier :)
rootbear 4y ago
Alpha Rho Epsilon? Alpha Pee Epsilon? Google isn't helping me here...
- jstrieb 4y ago
  I think they're referring to this: https://justine.lol/ape.html https://justine.lol/ape.html One of many HN discussions about the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960
  - rootbear 4y ago
    Thank you! When I encounter an unknown term on HN, I try to find out for myself what it is before bugging everyone, but it doesn't always work.
    - jstrieb 4y ago
      Yup! Besides being hard to search, others have commented that the name might be bad for accessibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257503
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abainbridge 4y ago

I think the Xlib dependency would prevent compilation as an αpε. I put some effort into doing X11 from scratch (without Xlib or Xcb) to make this possible. Or at least, my aim was to be able to build with musl libc and generate a single executable that would run on many different Linuxes. https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/df_window_x11.cpp https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/.... It is janky though.

082349872349872 4y ago
One advantage of speaking X directly for small projects is that one can allocate fixed ids.
csdvrx 4y ago
Super interesting! > It is janky though So what? It can be improved :) Would you like to try to make an APE out of it? It would then be not just different Linuxes, but also MacOS and Windows, a bit like https://x410.dev/ https://x410.dev/ or the free software vcxserv https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ We have discord. You should join us! FWIW I'm currently working on a DNS server with nice extra features like Multicast for mDNS/Bonjour: it could be used to publish the X server DISPLAY and make it accessible via service-discovery
- enriquto 4y ago
  > We have discord. You should join us! Who is "you", here?
  - csdvrx 4y ago
    People who try to hack stuff with APE - here abainbridge but hopefully, you too: the more the merrier :)

rootbear 4y ago

Alpha Rho Epsilon? Alpha Pee Epsilon? Google isn't helping me here...

jstrieb 4y ago
I think they're referring to this: https://justine.lol/ape.html https://justine.lol/ape.html One of many HN discussions about the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960
- rootbear 4y ago
  Thank you! When I encounter an unknown term on HN, I try to find out for myself what it is before bugging everyone, but it doesn't always work.
  - jstrieb 4y ago
    Yup! Besides being hard to search, others have commented that the name might be bad for accessibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257503
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