this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
771 points (99.5% liked)

linuxmemes

20880 readers
3 users here now

I use Arch btw


Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying "have taken up farming" and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It was abandoned for years

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Tbf what else would you want that to do? It was done

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

I mean, had it been rewritten in Rust yet?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

There are always issues, new distros, detection improvements, etc etc. Neofetch has 11 PRs open this year alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't think of a single piece of software that's "done." Even T~E~X is only at version 3.141592653, not π.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are some commonly used programming algorithms and snippets that have been in use and unchanged from their original C code since the 70s and 80s, because they do exactly the thing they are supposed to do, and nobody has come up with a better way of doing it. I have a fast hash function in a program of mine that was written by a guy in the early 2000s who was benchmarking various existing hash algorithms of the time, and that same function is still used in hundreds of other pieces of software.

I don't know of entire full programs that are like this though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I know at least one pr that wasn't (still hasn't been?) merged for years; Proper 8-bit color sequence support.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago