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I get that, I really do, but the lines are often much more blurred here. If I had a penny for every supposedly useful thing "written in Rust/blazing fast", I wo
by James_K 3y ago
I get that, I really do, but the lines are often much more blurred here. If I had a penny for every supposedly useful thing "written in Rust/blazing fast", I would be rich. I think people should be a lot clearer when they write software that isn't really intended to be used. Most of what I see exists in the middle ground, where it is written as though it will not be used, but then put out in to the world as if the author wants people to use it.
- sophacles 3y agoThis is literally the point of a lot of open source software... Sometimes its "hey i wrote this for me, here it is incase you stumble across it and find it useful". Sometimes it's "hey here's this thing i did that i find cool, y'all wanna work with me to improve it?". Sometimes its "look what I can do here's the code you can too!". Sometimes its even "Do you all think this approach has promise?". In fact very few open source projects are big and professional like Linux. Most are just things people do out of interest or fun.
- James_K 3y agoI have nothing against people who simply leave their stuff open to the public in case it might be useful. My issue is that a lot of this stuff is presented as something you should use when it really isn't fit for that. I've wasted a good deal of time on such projects, using them for a while before I realise they aren't fit for purpose.