Enjoy! The developer is happy about any bug reports and/or feature ideas, and he’s really responsive. :-)

I still have a soft spot for WordStar, to an extent where I wrote a WordStar-to-Markdown converter just to make WordTsar (no typo) even more useful for my daily usage. (Emacs doesn’t just cut it for letters.)

They’re not built with the latest libraries, IIRC not even MSVC.

I use Emacs.

Oh! I stand corrected. Haven’t heard news about it in quite some time though. Thank you!

Being autistic, I am perfectly comfortable with “don’t be a dick”.

The baseline in technical projects is “make good products” though.

I have noticed that Mozilla has a long history of bad decisions. I wish that the Foundation wouldn’t just let it bit-rot though.

I’m all in favour of the OpenBSD mantra here: Shut up and code. People aren’t the same, and you can’t expect (e.g.) autists to share the same views about what’s nice and what’s rude as other persons.

The point I’m trying to make is that nice people won’t help the project by being nice people. IT projects are inherently technical, and that should be the only relevant unit of measurement here.

Sounds like a threat though.

Even Mozilla doesn’t really want Gecko anymore, that’s why they started Servo.

“Selling”?

Regardless of the (undoubtedly funny) nature of that very document, I wish that “codes of conduct” weren’t such a big thing. “Don’t be a dick” is the only rule one would ever need, and there is not much bureaucracy needed to enforce that.

The problem is that they are still Microsoft applications. You can’t say “I’ll leave Microsoft!” and run their software in a Windows simulator anyway. That would be … inaccurate, to say the least.

Because you’ll learn the solution for the other problems you’ll have some day on the way.

When it doesn’t, it’ll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach.

So you prefer a “90% solution and then read the manual” to “read the manual anyway”?

Only to find the “AI” hallucinating functions that won’t work. Or won’t do the thing you were told they do.

Or use embedded Lisp, like all the cool kids.

The manual exists though.

Keep her!