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the suckless.org devs seem to like posting Nazi dogwhistles (oldbytes.space)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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kinda glad I bounced off of the suckless ecosystem when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're pathologically opposed to software complexity, you probably shouldn't be using a GUI at all. Many millions of lines of code are involved in turning UTF-8 into pixels on your screen, laying out widgets, driving a GPU, and so forth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh come off it. You know what I mean, I'm already mocking myself you don't need to hit me in the kidneys.

I ran headless for a while but security risls

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will say that it's impressive that modern GUIs, as staggeringly complex as they are, work as well and as quickly as they do, not to mention how ridiculously fast the hardware is. That's quality engineering right there.