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I’d rather install open source JavaScript code via curl and sudo than install closed source binaries via an iOS app. This is for something with a permanent plac
by erulabs 3y ago
I’d rather install open source JavaScript code via curl and sudo than install closed source binaries via an iOS app. This is for something with a permanent place on your home network.
Rachel is usually spot on, but dogma won the day today. Home assistant is great, and I’ll go one step further: I don’t care a bit what language a tool is written in. Plenty of insecure and malicious C in the world.
- tills13 3y agoYou can audit what you're installing as it's open source. Such an odd hill to die on.
- c0pium 3y agoCongratulations, you’ve now signed up to audit a genuine morass of a code base. It’s full of terribly written JavaScript hacked together by people who more or less know how to write a class. But hey, at least you can read the code.
- hnbad 3y agoIf you're so violently allergic to JavaScript just use OpenHAB, which is written in good old Java.
- c0pium 3y agoAs I made clear in my post it’s the quality of the code, not the language.
- tills13 3y agoYou, and 60k other people who have starred it or 80ish people that have recently committed.
- c0pium 3y agoOpenSSL would like a word.