Agreed. I’ll try and keep an open mind while sticking around for a while and watching the actual outcome of this, but I fear the worst.

While not perfect, the tag and it’s usage was the main differentiator between this site and a few comparable ones for me, and this change has the potential to destroy all of that.

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I would love to know how vibey haxy is. The commits do not contain any info, there is no contribution file, but the author talks quite openly about their local models on YouTube. My first impressions of Haxy were positive, I like how opinionated (is there a better word for that?) it is, but I don’t like the lack of information otherwise.

Also, I loved that this project actually is as easy to build as the README describes (though that is at least a bit due to Zig as well, I guess).

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Sure, to each their own. I’m also not criticizing your work, I’m just saying “I don’t want this.”

I think browsers suffer because their features are not user-driven, and competition is very hard because of the huge surface area that needs to be implemented. I don’t want terminals to suffer the same fate, or go down a heavily feature-fragmented route. They are by design meant to interact with an environment where this type of feature coverage can be implemented by combining tools (think UNIX philosophy), defining “the one true way” in the terminal is antithetical to that.

Just look at the many “this only works in Chrome” sites. That is not the path we should go down here.

I’d like terminals to ship like 10.

Speaking personally: please don’t. But if you insist, I think better a11y would actually benefit a good number of humans significantly.

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I like that the author starts with zig run and even writes the build file step-by-step. That’s a really gentle introduction, but necessary if the next part starts linking C libraries. I’m not entirely sure what audience needs that kind of slope but knows they want to embed lua, but if this continues this way I’m looking forward to the next parts.

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Funnily enough, it’s coming from a self-described (albeit top-hat-wearing) communist.

Boy, that temptation of ~personal slaves~ offloading hard work sure is something, huh.

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Speaking as someone who basically lives in a terminal, I’m not sure if I’m a fan of this “browserification” of terminals. There are already ways to interact with a desktop session, and placing too much functionality in the terminal could lead to fewer neat ideas of what is possible by, you know, executing programs in it.

If I want to direct my attention to something, I’m very happy with choosing between a notify-send, spd-say or curl ntfy.shor whatever. Just add a call this to “call” me option to your elevenhundredth agent harness if you so require.

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“Remember that bug we finally fixed last week boss? I want to submit it upstream but to do that I have to rewrite the report and patches by hand otherwise the upstream project will reject the fix.” isn’t an easy sell, unfortunately.

Is WONTFIX the easier sell? I don’t get it, what do you want? The permission to ignore other peoples wishes? You can either leave the bug, fork the project and shoulder the maintenance, switch to a different project or work with the project. You can’t make everything serve you like CC does.

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