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by sloum 8y ago
Time to write one! They are fun little coding projects (I've written three, one in Lua, one in Python/Tkinter, and one in Golang). A lot of the people in the shell communities I am a part of (all of which offer Gopher hosting) rol
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by sloum 8y ago
I think Lua is a wodnerful langauge, highly embedable, great feature set/style, quite fast, really lightweight. Pico-8 had it right in everything but the license.
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by sloum 8y ago
Not to mention JS vs Lua (an unfortunate direction in my view). That said, open source is good. There are a few other open source versions. TIC-80 is another open source option. LIKO-12 as well.
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by sloum 8y ago
There are a lot of good shell systems out there. I first used SDF. Then circumlunar.space (which is still a mainstay for me). I also now run a micro-pubnix off of a raspberry pi zero (featuring a custom built shell and software suite for go
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by sloum 8y ago
The weird internet is still there. It just isnt on the web. Join a pubnix, use gopher, find a good bbs, get back on IRC. Those are just a few great spaces. The bit of technical knowhow to get to or use them reduces their viability as capit
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by sloum 8y ago
I agree that the game of changing software and work is fun and interesting in a certain light, but not really meaningful. At the core of all of this is something that people here just don't seem to want to wade into (understandably): c
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by sloum 8y ago
You keep talking about helping Linux spread, as if you are trying to do some overlooked thing a favor. Linux is BY FAR the most deployed group of software environments/OS' on the planet. I'm not sure who you think you are try