m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@swaggboi
With all the merchandise?

@romin
That would not be approved by mechanical keyboard makers — they have to sell you a new keyboard every now and then.

@theorytoe
A-ah, don't worry! It's by pure chance that I know what Digital Mars is so I could guess who's the author.
Experienced people might hold opinions that do now make any sense to you (and often do 🤭), it's not one-dimensional — that's the beauty of it!
@iska

@romin
…two times and holds to break free from stasis? 🤔

@theorytoe
The guy's no rookie — that's for sure, he's a skilled compiler developer and even designed his own language, he speaks from experience… It's just that he just has a vastly different vision of what a compiler should do, like if it's computable at compile time, the compiler should just do that — I don't share this approach either. If I did it that way instead of defining a macro — this is what I want, the compiler should not make choices for me 🤷
@iska

@charlie_root
Ha-ha-ha, thanks, man!
Indeed, I have a few years of dealing Windows behind my back, but I'm hardly that knowledgeable — I just remember all too well how confusing it can be when you're coming from Linux or Mac OS X 😁

@charlie_root
Although you expect the filesystem itself to handle this, it does not and it might depend on software 😂
Windows can sure be counterintuitive!

@charlie_root In Windows "date created" and "date modified" are also separate attributes — you can make the corresponding columns visible in Explorer. In theory it even supports "date accessed" — so-called atime, but I'm not sure all versions of NTFS support that.
And yes, I have just checked — extracting a file from an archive using Explorer alters its modification time 🤷

@iska @theorytoe
I might not agree with the criticism in the linked article, but describing the one who created D programming language, a C++ compiler and a C compiler before that as "someone who rarely has primary experience writing C" just feels wrong!

@kingu
s/won't come/won't be coming/ that would probably be more correct 🤔

@unspeaker @tiredhorizon
It's probably somewhere under gconf… or dconf… of gsettings, or — whatever new thing they have that apes Windows registry 😆
There is also xdg-mime that you can use to manage file type associations, but again — I'm not sure GNOME considers its DB a priority or relies on something else these days.

@kingu
Except in 3D-world zombies won't come from only one direction 🧟‍♀️😱🧟‍♂️

@newt
I'm security conscious 😜
I hand-pick even the fonts. If the system can keep working without it, why have it? Some of my machines don't have fuser/lsof or who or netstat… Having Qt is akin to having a behemoth like LibreOffice installed on a machine where I don't use it.
I don't insist on everyone being like that, but it's one more reason why Qt isn't for me, its modularity needs more work.
@mischievoustomato @prettygood @adiz

@newt
I agree — in some parts it's broken ugly piece of shit, but it's not our topic really, is it? It would be like that in any language.
snac2 is popular due to its small footprint, that is thanks to C. Sway is… well, popular, and it's a relatively young project in C. Lagrange is very niche, but in its niche it's insanely popular — can't say that it's due to it being in C, more thanks to effort put into it by its developer.

@condret @captainepoch

@newt
I see new Qt software every now and then — it's hard to not notice that things have improved, computers got more performant so having GUI toolkit in C++ became acceptable, but it's still not something worth installing 200 packages named "qt-kitchen-sink" and KDE… It's something I knew I would never use, it feels wrong to me in every possible way.

@mischievoustomato @prettygood @adiz

@newt
Gnome wasn't "slow and bugged" — especially compared to Qt-based KDE of the time. This was my point!
I don't even know what full GNOME experience is nowadays, but what I have learned from that time is to never touch anything Qt — even with a five-hundred-metre pole!

@mischievoustomato @prettygood @adiz

@newt
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but was it me or was it someone nicknamed Newt, who mentioned a comment from… 2001 even (!) in the opening post? 🤔

@mischievoustomato @prettygood @adiz

@newt
We're on Fedi and snac2, thanks to its small footprint, grows pretty damn popular around these parts.
Lagrange is in C, Sway is in C… Hobby-projects — sure, but they are well beyond "hello world" level. New projects of what scale do you expect to find as examples? Linux kernel is that big precisely because it's not that young.

Oh my, I'm playing devil's advocate for C, what am I doing! 😱

@condret @captainepoch