Hacker News Reader

Comment by mrweasel | Hacker News Reader

> Motif app of yore would've been a great "investment" ... sort of like Win32/MFC.

I've slowly started getting back to desktop Linux, and honestly Motif (mwm) is fine for my needs. Maybe fvwm would be slightly better.

If I where to do my career over, I'd consider going for C++ and Win32, it seems like a stable performant platform (I get that there's other problems on modern Windows).

View on HN

wine is the stable abi on Linux.

For those who don't know the reference: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

oh I'm pretty sure I've seen that a long time before. funnily enough there was a time if you had both an os x partition for Mac os and an ext2/3 partition for Linux, the only way to share files freely between the two was through a fat32 partition.

Are you referring to exFAT?

that's only since 2009 on Linux and snow leopard in 2010. in the years before, you had to do fat32.

> wine is the stable abi on Linux.

When it works, yes. Unfortunately, the quality of open source software, especially of big projects, has gone downhill in the later years.

I'm using mwm right now, and a motif build of emacs.

EMWM there, with a Vim build of Motif too.

https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html

So there must be at least three of us. Hi!

Hello. BTW, if there's no Motif tool available, there's always TCL/TK. As an example, TKDiff.

Or a Gemini/Gopher client:

https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG

It just requieres TCL/TK and tcl-tls. It's run faster than compiled browsers, even if the browsers have Javascript disabled. Services:

gemini://gemi.dev News Waffle, perfect for newspapers, no ads, no 700 cookies tracking you.

gopher://magical.fish Big portal, good news service

gopher://hngopher.com HN

gopher://gopherddit.com Reddit

Reply on news.ycombinator.com