@fthevenet I don’t remember there being as much hype, no. The anti-mono thing was driven by misguided concern about patents iirc. People developing with mono lost enthusiasm as a result. Some pretty cool apps bit rotted, and (imho) the Linux desktop (gnome in particular) was set back years. For Rust, I get that the mania is annoying. But frankly eg oppositional comments on LWN articles (which is what prompted my toot) are as bad or worse: https://lwn.net/Articles/986540/
Folks running container services for personal use: how do you keep track of security issues, updates, etc?
@pwaring I’ve seen a lot of the knee-jerk stuff, and it’s escalated beyond reactions to articles about rust, to articles adjacent to rust (like a recent uv one on LWN). I can appreciate people getting tired of the “rewrite the world” attitude, but I’m not sure that frustration should be externalised.
I’m seeing more and more backlash to Rust (recently an ugly LWN comment thread on an article about uv, a python tool that only happens to be written in Rust) and I’m finding it alarming. Trying to think of another technology that suffered some backlash like that and the closest I can think of is the misguided anti-mono stuff at the turn of the century.
I’ve been reading about HTMX to try and not completely lose touch with tech (even if it’s far from what I do) whilst off ill. I’m loving what I’ve learned about it so far!
@neauoire there’s a great, if frightening, novel by Chris Beckett “America City” which extrapolates the repercussions of northwards migratory pressure from the US on Canada. I recommend it
@mdione I can’t say they’re perfect but Kitty and Alacritty at least behave similarly on Linux to MacOS.
@joostruis it’s got me thinking about what my very first experiences of the open source world were, coming from Windows in the late 90s. I’ve been toying with writing up a blog post, aiming not to be a memory-lane piece, but trying to compare the context for me then with the context for new folks now. So much has changed.
@joostruis I know what you mean about efficiencies. The seeming-wasted-effort has been a feature (or a bug) of FOSS for decades; see also GTK and Qt. It’s a nuanced issue deeply tied up with people’s idea of what the freedom of free software means, and the trend towards “opinionated” software. There’s no one right answer I fear. I’m sad that some opinionated ideas got baked into wayland (e.g. client side decorations) which makes complete adoption that much harder.
@joostruis Who's ideal world? Personally, I can't see myself moving (due to fundamental designed-in problems with Wayland) so long as I have a choice.