Comparing the single-file efficiency of version control systems
1 0 comments 03 Apr 2020 14:45 u/rhabarba (..) in v/programmingComment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
1 04 Feb 2019 01:24 u/rhabarba in v/programmingComment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
It would, they would have to write their distribution mostly from scratch. It would be "easier" with other apt distributions, but there are not really many choices.
Linuxland is Lock-in-Land. ;-)
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
Unlikely, they're still endorsing Ubuntu ... ;-)
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
I like what the Mint guys do with the aesthetics, but their security record is weird.
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
If a certain desktop is crucial for "usability" to you, I have bad news...
MATE is available though.
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
Solaris was well and alive before Shitty McShitface's company bought Sun and basically killed off everything except MySQL.
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
Tried OpenBSD recently?
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun
Popcorn.
SCCS - The POSIX standard Source Code Control System.
1 0 comments 13 Sep 2018 15:03 u/rhabarba (..) in v/programmingComment on: TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly
It certainly is. I played a bit with it. It has a slightly higher entry level than Python, probably, but it's plain awesome. :-)
Comment on: TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly
No, why? Javascript does not matter though, as all the Javascript work is done on the client side anyway.
Comment on: TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly
The key is performance, so C++ and C are the only two other options, I'm afraid. :-)
Comment on: TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly
Maybe thanks to the increasing number of embedded systems.
TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly
4 9 comments 10 Jul 2016 00:57 u/rhabarba (..) in v/programmingBCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite [xpost /v/webdev]
3 0 comments 06 Jun 2016 20:07 u/rhabarba (..) in v/programmingComment on: What every compiler writer should know about programmers
Maybe you should just write your own compiler which does not care. ;-)
What every compiler writer should know about programmers
3 3 comments 03 Mar 2016 13:26 u/rhabarba (..) in v/programmingComment on: Lazarus: A fantastic desktop application development tool
I wish I had more time to spend it with Delphi/Pascal. There are quite a few desktop applications I'd love to develop in it.
Comment on: Lazarus: A fantastic desktop application development tool
For rapid development, I suggest you to give Lisp a try. It even has Qt bindings.
And a couple of Mint tools which would probably be portable.