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@hbons@mastodon.social more open source streamers!
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4.5.15
Hi, I am Lorenz, I am interested in many things, lets see what comes next :)
I am in Berlin/Germany, looking out to explore, meeting new people, and more opportunities!
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@katzenmann@c3d2.social
@katzenmann you can also use mutter from other languages, elementary OS does that. But yeah I guess if you want system programming languages, you listed all already.
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@katzenmann@c3d2.social
@katzenmann I mean gnome shell is a compositor written in js. Also you can use typescript instead.
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@katzenmann@c3d2.social
@katzenmann qml with js (what quick shell uses), or mutter and gjs (gnome shell stack)
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@lw64@chaos.social
And sometimes that means there are products competing with each other. I think that's a good thing.
It is very normal that an open source project/community wants to ship its software/efforts directly to its end users as a product. (with branding) (for various reasons)
The goal should not be to unify all efforts on one product, but to deduplicate the efforts. And tooling can make that easier.
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@vixalientoots@mas.to
@vixalientoots @monster that sounds super nice! If I had time and an idea for an app right now I would use this probably (though not an easy choice, the go bindings look fancy too)
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@lw64@chaos.social
@vixalientoots btw is there a matrix chatroom for peach or somewhere to lurk to see the progress? :)
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@vixalientoots@mas.to
@vixalientoots @monster this is so cool. If support for all the gtk features is complete this could very easily have better DX than blueprint currently has. (or probably it has already..) imo the big problem of gjs was always that there is no existing language ecosystem to piggyback on, (you can use node libraries afaik, but its not as well integrated), so this would change that fundamental problem.
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@lw64@chaos.social
@mirandah @richlitt @sustainoss I am active in the Linux Desktop space, and I say that because it is a bit different from average open source. In your talk you mentioned that around 40% of contributors get paid for it. In the desktop space this number is probably massively lower. Its a crazy paradox, even though our software is so immensely popular, and very complex so that you need hundreds of packages and people to build such a product, there is almost no economical incentive in it these days.
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@mirandah@mastodon.social
@mirandah @richlitt @sustainoss I just listened to the podcast, after watching the FOSDEM talk a couple weeks ago, sadly I didn't have time to see it in person! I found it super interesting and insightful, and inspired lots of thinking in me 😅. I am always surprised how little burnout gets talked about, even though it is one of *the* basic and inherent problems of open source, and how people don't want to admit it is and that maybe they are burnt out themselves too actually...
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@pojntfx@mastodon.social
@pojntfx it's crazy reading this. But I am afraid it's not an uncommon thing these days. These services are designed to be addicting etc...
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@Jbb@social.tchncs.de
@Jbb@social.tchncs.de thank god, the irreplacable piece of digital infrastructure needs to keep going!
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@Jbb@social.tchncs.de
@Jbb@social.tchncs.de that might be too much for pinebooks though...
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@estrogen@tech.lgbt
@estrogen@tech.lgbt @gnome@floss.social not yet, but we will have one eventually!