Colloidal

joined 11 months ago
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Hey look! Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension!

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

F-Droid seems to manage it just fine. It's even got reproducible builds.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

Yes, it was pointed out that CoMaps was also the name of a business operating in... maps. So if the project gets traction, they'll likely be sued into a better name.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why didn't they write this instead of the BS above?

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why build another CLI editor?
What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI text editor in 64-bit versions of Windows. 32-bit versions of Windows ship with the MS-DOS editor, but 64-bit versions do not have a CLI editor installed inbox. From there, we narrowed down our options…
Many of you are probably familiar with the “How do I exit vim?” meme. While it is relatively simple to learn the magic exit incantation, it’s certainly not a coincidence that this often turns up as a stumbling block for new and old programmers.
Because we wanted to avoid this for a built-in default editor, we decided that we wanted a modeless editor for Windows (versus a modal editor where new users would have to remember different modes of operation and how to switch between them). This unfortunately limited our choices to a list of editors that either had no first-party support for Windows or were too big to bundle them with every version of the OS. As a result, Edit was born.

TL;DR: We tried nothing and were all out of options.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Simulink was the fun part of Matlab.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

Spare a thought too (and some cash) to the forefather that made this all possible: Debian.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 54 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The severed remains of a DP cable, sill attached to the port.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 16 points 8 months ago

The power of the anecdote!

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