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by flossly 7d ago
who's your audience? who will read/use it?
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by flossly 7d ago
An if you dont like to give them your work, but still do open source, there are the copy-left licenses: GPL and AGPL. They stay away from those. What license was KHTML again? Checked: LGPL.
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by flossly 7d ago
For me Kotlin is an "acceptable Ruby with types" Actually better than the Ruby with types we have now...
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by flossly 9d ago
> So right now Servo is funded by the community, and this is no good because why? Because look at Mozilla... You need to get the browser in front of people. A browser that works on the real web, is such a huge project, you cannot do it a
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by flossly 9d ago
I remember waiting on the Mozilla project to deliver something that could browse as well on linux as closed source browsers on windows/mac did. It... took... long... But there it was. And it still works.
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by flossly 9d ago
That's news! Would be really cool.
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by flossly 9d ago
I really wish a patron would step up and sponsor this project. Not just by money, but also by plugging it in their browser-carrying products. Maybe Hauwei of Samgsung; they now sling a browser derived of another for-profit --usually competi
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by flossly 9d ago
Reduce is like `fold` in Haskell right? Fold in Haskell has many variant, I forgot exactly which, but I remember there were many. I never met so many different variants of the `map` or `filter` function in Haskell. Maybe this shows, in a di
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by flossly 10d ago
I miss from the home page a link to github and/or a description of it's license and/or some code of an actual capsule app (what backend language is used? -- I have no clue and cannot find out) and/or does this bundle Nod
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by flossly 10d ago
One of the more prolific opensource projects, but apart from the JEP process not very open access (which is a fair choice the contributor('s employer) can make). I'd read it.
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by flossly 11d ago
Ubuntu is free. But Canonical is for profit. In these cases "if you are not paying for the product, you are the product" applies. Ubuntu users will test this. Once the problems are ironed out, other distros will follow.
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by flossly 12d ago
They certainly have design issues. For such a big brand, I dont get it... Why not make 'm look nice?
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by flossly 13d ago
Actually you reply to a comment that makes a lot of sense. Look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative And in Russian I believe such a company is called a "Soviet". They idea that the main part
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by flossly 13d ago
It's allowed to do a more democratic business in most countries, it's called a: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative There have been some govts that mandated this type of organization for part of
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by flossly 13d ago
I dont care for Sam Altman's color. But, c'mon, how's he not white? I learned Duck-typing from Ruby: if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck and swims like a duck -- it's a duck. Applying this to Sam: he's white.
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by flossly 14d ago
In my last project (Kotlin; web app) I've decided against async (coroutines). I just want to keep it simple. Async "infects" you code: for it to bring benefits your whole codebase needs to be doing it (ingesting requests, db
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by flossly 14d ago
I thought Logo was interesting because it translated the syntax (and errors) to the language of the programmer. Thereby it removed "learning English" as a prerequisite for learning programming. https://apps.kde.org&#x2F
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by flossly 15d ago
I'm sure AI corps have violated some IP laws here 'n there. Did not one guy die while he was trying to blow the whistle on this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji (sorry for the thinfoil hat remark)
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by flossly 15d ago
Like with all the tricks Meta played... Maybe somewhere deep down Moonshot's EULA is says that they are allowed to "proxy from time to time for research purposes". Then it's legal right? /s
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by flossly 15d ago
And now we learn they use Swift and Kotlin to replace React with. So they are not replacing it with Ruby. I think they've hit the limits on Ruby (like twitter had on Scala). P.s.: I find Kotlin "an acceptable typed-Ruby" with
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by flossly 16d ago
Glad they have a patron now. I use it in my project (because scoped-css is not yet available in browsers and I do not want to deal much with CSS). LLMs write Tailwind easily, so that's good. And I do not have yet another place where cr
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by flossly 24d ago
Not saying Elm does not have it's hard parts, but the solution in there is succinctly different from what you just described that I think you might even find it interesting. I used Qt, Gtk, React, Elm, JS-spagetti-with-some-jQuery-on-t
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by flossly 25d ago
Also: nagging about the specifics of the README's tone of voice, while the 600-1000MB RAM usage drops to 100-250MB seems a little childish to me. It's still open source! Just like in the pre-AI era they are welcome to submit a PR
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by flossly 25d ago
I like ReScript/Reason. But it's no were close to Elm. Htmx is the opposite of what I like. I will not use it ever for something serious.
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by flossly 25d ago
ok. did not know that.
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by flossly 25d ago
are you hinting at Elm? sorry my friend, that aint spagetti to me. it's a lot of fun working at a codebase that does essentially does not allow for runtime programming errors (validation errors are still there, or API/3rd-party er
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by flossly 26d ago
I think the main idea here is the "being able to use Rust for x-platform UIs". If any language is acceptable, yes, you cold use Dart (Flutter), Delphi (Lazarus), C++ (Qt), etc. There are bridges to Rust: https://pub.dev
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by flossly 26d ago
Doesn't Qt wrap native UI toolkits? It looks very native...
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by flossly 29d ago
I'm glad I'm not using this. It's the opposite of how I like to build web apps (which is either SSR with tiny bits of JS on top that I like to use Alpine.js for; or a JS-app that I like to use Elm for as life is too short run
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by flossly 1mo ago
We need down-vote buttons for slop like this on HN. How can this reach the frontpage? Since you are reading, here a story of mine. Both me and a friend build a SaaS product using ClaudeCode. We both have 15+ year experience in software (he

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