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Microsoft/Windows’s ecosystem. As an example, any general guide on the Internet or on Microsoft’s end is written assuming you are developing on and for Windows. I want to stay away from Windows as much as I possibly can but it just isn’t possible. That’s not the case with the other languages/ecosystems I mentioned.

I work on backend (distributed systems) leveraging languages like Java, Python, Go, Ruby and TypeScript.

I (and countless others I know) simply refuse to learn/use a language that locks you in an ecosystem. I haven’t taken Kotlin, C# or any of the Apple proprietary tech jobs and never will.

I'd say it is more about how esoteric LaTeX extensions/plugins felt like when I picked it up (I was just getting into the field back then). I am sure that now, after years of experience, I would be more open to give it a shot again. Unfortunately, I am no longer into research anymore. I did have fun converting my LaTeX resume to Typst though.

I remember having to learn LaTeX to write my research papers. Probably the worst time I’ve had learning something. As someone who has OCD for making everything consistent, trying to achieve the same in LaTeX made me wanna give up research itself. In fact, now that I think about it, I did give up research due to it.

Why does a user need to know and do this to get a just bearable experience? Has the bar gotten so low?

I don't know what is going on at Microsoft but words can't express how fast their ecosystem has been going down the gutter. At this point, I do not recommend Microsoft's products if a good enough alternative exists (many times it does).

This is such a big pro imo. Gone are those days when my hands/wrists used to be in pain from all the typing. Vim removed all that pain and made me look forward to typing as a fun activity. God bless Bram.

+1. Personally, I’m a fan of TUIs too that make things a bit more user friendly. Just imagine an internal TUI framework that has components for each internal service that you can lego-build into personalised TUI dashboard. Hmm, seems like something I could work on the side at work. Would be a huge undertaking but very interesting.

Preface: My opinions are my own and not my employer’s.

Curious how long ago were you at AWS? For context, I spent the last few years in AWS working on an internal platform service whose entire purpose was to reduce operational toil by helping you codify your operational runbooks and execute them safely and automatically. Atuin Desktop is similar to that service in some sense but that service just offered much more features.

Now that’s incredible

+1. I see it being helpful for the differently abled but for everyone to just speak out loud their every action would drive everyone nuts in a public setting. Not to mention I can type “code” much faster than if I were to speak it.

Umm, doesn’t Go do so as well? Personally, I’ve had a better experience working with Go tooling.

Very few for-profit projects have stayed as good (or improved) post their change to for-profit. If money becomes the sole driving factor for growth, no one can prevent enshittification. It is what it is...

What a dumbass decision

It is by far the worst platform I’ve seen…ever. I use it only as a resume fallback and to find job positions. That’s it. If someone has an extension that blocks all social media aspect of it, please let me know.

No shit Sherlock

Cry me a river

Good. Keep on adding stuff to an already bloated language.

I mean, that is just a one time thing right (the first time you land on it)?

Does this work for all CLIs? There is Gooey [1], a similar Python project that works, but only for Python CLIs.

[1]: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

Not sure I agree. They are built to last, yes, but would be a pain to get fixed if they break down. If it were me, I'd have preferred something like a Thinkpad.

Oh man, if this is true, I truly salute his dedication for pushing through and contributing to open source. Not many, despite having all the means available to them, have the drive to "just do it". markview.nvim is a great plugin that does one thing and does it well.

Edit: Seems like there is an open issue [1] to get him a PC to code on. Just one more reason why I love the community.

[1]: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/218

Yo chat is this real?

Thanks for sharing this. It is incredibly useful!

Couldn’t have said it any better myself

Seems like the only ecosystem that moves as fast and is as fragmented as JavaScript is Python, so I'll wait before jumping on the hype train. Looks interesting though.

No good thing ever lasts, especially in the world of tech. So, I'll be sticking with Bitwarden until they somehow eventually fuck it up and something else takes its place.

Pretty much what I feel about Rust

To all the people I know who are hell bent on using Chrome because its "superior", I say "Game on!"