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> Motif app of yore would've been a great "investment" ... sort of like Win32/MFC. I've slowly started getting back to desktop Linux, and honestly Motif (mwm)

> Motif app of yore would've been a great "investment" ... sort of like Win32/MFC. I've slowly started getting back to desktop Linux, and honestly Motif (mwm) is fine for my needs. Maybe fvwm would be slightly better. If I where to do my career over, I'd consider going for C++ and Win32, it seems like a stable performant platform (I get that there's other problems on modern Windows).

exe34 2y ago
wine is the stable abi on Linux.
- throwaway2046 2y ago
  For those who don't know the reference: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
  - exe34 2y ago
    oh I'm pretty sure I've seen that a long time before. funnily enough there was a time if you had both an os x partition for Mac os and an ext2/3 partition for Linux, the only way to share files freely between the two was through a fat32 partition.
    - moomoo3000 2y ago
      Are you referring to exFAT?
      - exe34 2y ago
        that's only since 2009 on Linux and snow leopard in 2010. in the years before, you had to do fat32.
- hulitu 2y ago
  > wine is the stable abi on Linux. When it works, yes. Unfortunately, the quality of open source software, especially of big projects, has gone downhill in the later years.
rjsw 2y ago
I'm using mwm right now, and a motif build of emacs.
- anthk 2y ago
  EMWM there, with a Vim build of Motif too. https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html
  - akritid 2y ago
    So there must be at least three of us. Hi!
    - anthk 2y ago
      Hello. BTW, if there's no Motif tool available, there's always TCL/TK. As an example, TKDiff. Or a Gemini/Gopher client: https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG It just requieres TCL/TK and tcl-tls. It's run faster than compiled browsers, even if the browsers have Javascript disabled. Services: gemini://gemi.dev News Waffle, perfect for newspapers, no ads, no 700 cookies tracking you. gopher://magical.fish Big portal, good news service gopher://hngopher.com HN gopher://gopherddit.com Reddit

exe34 2y ago

wine is the stable abi on Linux.

throwaway2046 2y ago
For those who don't know the reference: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
- exe34 2y ago
  oh I'm pretty sure I've seen that a long time before. funnily enough there was a time if you had both an os x partition for Mac os and an ext2/3 partition for Linux, the only way to share files freely between the two was through a fat32 partition.
  - moomoo3000 2y ago
    Are you referring to exFAT?
    - exe34 2y ago
      that's only since 2009 on Linux and snow leopard in 2010. in the years before, you had to do fat32.
hulitu 2y ago
> wine is the stable abi on Linux. When it works, yes. Unfortunately, the quality of open source software, especially of big projects, has gone downhill in the later years.

rjsw 2y ago

I'm using mwm right now, and a motif build of emacs.

anthk 2y ago
EMWM there, with a Vim build of Motif too. https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html
- akritid 2y ago
  So there must be at least three of us. Hi!
  - anthk 2y ago
    Hello. BTW, if there's no Motif tool available, there's always TCL/TK. As an example, TKDiff. Or a Gemini/Gopher client: https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG It just requieres TCL/TK and tcl-tls. It's run faster than compiled browsers, even if the browsers have Javascript disabled. Services: gemini://gemi.dev News Waffle, perfect for newspapers, no ads, no 700 cookies tracking you. gopher://magical.fish Big portal, good news service gopher://hngopher.com HN gopher://gopherddit.com Reddit