WD-42

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811.
by WD-42 1y ago
Regardless of the AI stuff, Zed is the best editor since Sublime Text and it’s only getting better. Congrats to the team. I also laughed at the dig on VSCode at the start. For the unaware, the team behind Zed was originally working on Atom.
812.
by WD-42 1y ago
This exactly. It seems like the last 10 years of JavaScript framework progress has been driven by DX, not UX. Like at some point everyone forgot this crap just needs to work at the end of the day, no user benefits from 3 rewrites over 5 yea
813.
by WD-42 1y ago
Stuff like this is why I fell in love with Linux. Some amazing creativity in here. Almost makes me wish I dual booted with something so I’d have an excuse to see grub!
814.
by WD-42 1y ago
Uhoh, another pushover-licensed database. I wonder when it will begin it’s own redis saga.
815.
by WD-42 1y ago
Is it that much simpler than ‘load extension postgis’? I know geos and gdal have always kinda been a pain, but I feel like docker has abstracted it all away anyway. ‘docker pull postgis’ is pretty easy, granted I’m not familiar with what el
816.
by WD-42 1y ago
I’ve been dabbling in OS development. I started with rust and it was… ok. Lots of what you’d expect: unsafe all over the place, weird borrow checker work arounds. It felt like I was bending the languages arm. I recently started to re implem
817.
by WD-42 1y ago
Or start with the AGPL from the start instead of a pushover license and sell alternative licenses to hyper scalers if they want it.
818.
by WD-42 1y ago
So a hyperscaler bans the AGPL? Shocking. Seems to be working as intended.
819.
by WD-42 1y ago
They aren't really comparable and you know that.
820.
by WD-42 1y ago
What made the early apps great and viral on iPhone were the indie developers. The ones making flashlight and farting sound boards. They paved the way, and for them $3500 is a lot of money. Who cares if it’s pocket change for google or meta,
821.
by WD-42 2y ago
So what editor is a starter then? As far as I know pyright is the de facto checker for python in most editors. Not sure why it would be worse in zed, seems to work fine for me. Or as well as pyright can work.
822.
by WD-42 2y ago
Try ruff instead of pylint. It will open your eyes to how performant software can actually be. All of us that have been working in python and JavaScript for too long have really forgotten.
823.
by WD-42 2y ago
It’s dog slow. I realize we are talking about a python checker written in typescript, so two relatively slow languages combined, but still. The dependency on node makes it a PITA to set up in non-vs code environments as well.
824.
by WD-42 2y ago
Cannot wait to get rid of pyright, but I’ll be holding out for Astrals type checker.
825.
by WD-42 2y ago
This is what normal people used to discuss with the people they were eating with. Sad.
826.
by WD-42 2y ago
This argument goes only so far. Would you consider querying a database hard? Most developers would say no. But it’s actually a pretty hard problem, if you want to do it safely. In rust, that difficultly leaks into the crates. I have a proje
827.
by WD-42 2y ago
Incredible work! Congratulations
828.
by WD-42 2y ago
Another performance characteristic that used to piss me off when I used brew was that at least for one program, it had to invoke brew to launch. Something about finding a path. So that's an entire ruby interpreter starting and stopping
829.
by WD-42 2y ago
It’s to be expected when almost every app is electron or some web wrapper, that all consistency is lost. The only way to get it back (kinda) is to avoid those apps.
830.
by WD-42 2y ago
I love this
831.
by WD-42 2y ago
I thought you ended up behind a bookshelf.
832.
by WD-42 2y ago
It still boggles my mind that people don't understand this. The FUD and misinformation that's been spreading about the GPL and the FSF the last decade almost seems like an intentional campaign brought on by exactly those who benef
833.
by WD-42 2y ago
There is such a organization, it's called the Free Software Foundataion??? Where do you think the GPL comes from?
834.
by WD-42 2y ago
I highly doubt this. KDE users are far more vocal. Most people install Ubuntu (which is GNOME by default) use it and are happy with it and never comment about it on the internet. It's near impossible to have a Linux GUI environment wit
835.
by WD-42 2y ago
Did you read the article? The missing attribution is a tiny part of it. That’s not really what the author is complaining about.
836.
by WD-42 2y ago
Ok, so MS will see this thread and re-add the missing header to a few files. You really think the author is going to then feel 100% better about it? They are just another data point in the long list of authors who chose a permissive license
837.
by WD-42 2y ago
How do you refuse to engage if you use the MIT license?
838.
by WD-42 2y ago
It seems like a pretty minor violation, to be fair. They do reference the project in the repo. The real question is why did the author choose MIT if they didn’t want allow mega corps to benefit from their work without contributing back. Tha
839.
by WD-42 2y ago
Before css there were engines, which were like families of themes. One of them was the pixmap engine which was what it sounds like: it used images to make up elements of the theme. Some of the most ambitious themes used this engine. CSS did
840.
by WD-42 2y ago
The Gnome/gtk folks have been systematically removing theming capabilities for the last decade+ in the pursuit of an Apple-like philosophy towards ui. This has really killed a lot of theming because so many apps use GTK.

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