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[–]happysmash27 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same. Sometimes I feel like a change-afraid luddite when a new technology comes along that, like most current computer technology, is horrible, but then I remember how happy I am to switch to metric, learn Esperanto, use weird but fast user interfaces like tiling window managers/compositors (right now I use Sway), learn the command line (where I do most of my computing when I can), etc, and realise that my actual problem with it is that they are making bad changes instead of good ones. I am happy to change if the change brings me benefits in the long run instead of harm.

Speaking of suckless, I really like that software, but do wish it had better Wayland support so I could switch to it. st sounds like it could be pretty cool; my current terminal alacritty uses a ridiculous amount of memory for some reason, which I guess is fine since I have tons of RAM, but it's still pretty annoying for a terminal which is supposed to be simple.

…Actually, this is the first time I've really looked at the Suckless software other than dwm and dmenu (which I actually use in Sway). Farbfeld actually looks pretty interesting and I might use it for simple software I make like my WIP ray tracer that I prefer to use with simpler libraries rather than complex.

ii also seems like a pretty cool irc client. The way it uses files and relies on programs like echo for i/o somewhat reminds me of the recent extremely simple and fast binary-to-text (and text-to-binary) converters I made: https://github.com/happysmash27/bin2txt.

Ooh! I forgot slock was a suckless project! It is definitely my favourite display locker for X11, and I think it's a shame it doesn't support Wayland.

They seem to like C a lot, even writing games in C, and I am often the same. I do wonder if C would be the best choice for a highly modular block game which I want to write, though, but in general, if I am making a program, I will usually write it in C.

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you're hardcore smasher. man now I want to write some C. it's been 20 years since I've touched it.