Compared to untyped languages? Sure. Compared to C or C++? Then maybe it’s a skill issue 😋

Yeah, a common NVIDIA L.

The devs aren’t anybody’s lackeys either. Many are doing it for free in their own time. If you dont want Wayland, then support X11 with code, money, or documentation. If you don’t support the X11 devs and maintainers, then you’re making a decision to let it die and nobody’s “forcing you” to use Wayland.

Do you have a recent graphics card? How long is “never”?

I dont know how old your card is, but NVIDIA only recently decided not to be complete gobshite on Linux and newer cards should be safer (from what I’ve read). AMD has been stable on linux for the last decade or so while NVIDIA (aka NOVIDIO) was a terrible actor on Linux and the community had to reverse engineer a lot of their stuff.

Buys an NVIDIA GPU, complains it doesn’t work with Wayland. Classic.

Rust haters are just a hilarious species. It’s like they are paid Russian trolls blowing everything out of proportion, making nonsensical arguments, and always whining about one thing or another.

I can’t tell if these are real people or just bot and sock puppet accounts operated by suckless.

What do you mean by better?

“Kernel version numbers are easy”

And yet people still happily use the platform. À la “smash capitalism” sticker on a Macbook Pro.

Didn’t know about those. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. I wonder how they compare to libxml2.

It wasn’t even tech bros. Some people started using opensource software, discovered the master branch and lost their shit. Nobody meaningful had ever connected the name to anything malevolent, but those people made themselves be offended in the name of people who weren’t even offended by it.

Microsoft bought github and didn’t want the bad press so they renamed it after the twitter shitstorm. The professional victims then moved on to whatever else made noise on twitter and that was that.

I force all new projects to use master as all my old scripts and repos use master. Twitter shitstorms scan stay where they should be: in the toilet bowl of the internet aka twitter.

The Linux Foundation is too busy funding AI, it seems.

They support MKV now???

Phoronix commentors will be furious.

Every version is stable in linux means no version breaks userspace. Semver’s major version literally breaks the contract. It’s what it’s for.

And even if we literally meant stable as in “this is expected to work”, no, that is nowhere near normal in my experience. There are countless projects and companies with “test in production” mentalities. Then there are distros like Ubuntu and nixos that always have an unstable and/or a testing release, which is by definition not stable.

So, no, every version is stable is definitely not the norm in my experience.

My guess, it’ll be rewritten in rust.

“Every version is stable” is definitely not “just like every other branched model”. Why not just have an increasing number or date as a version number if everything is stable? The major and minor numbers don’t make in this way if “everything is stable”.

Good on Nick. Do what you want buddy, you had a good run. Go have some fun doing what you love.

Now it’s time for a corporate user of libxml2 to donate resources for maintenance and bug fixing or forking it. It doesn’t always have to be on the shoulders of unpaid maintainers.

“Simple”. That’s not simple.