Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Seriously asking.
I'm trying to figure out what they are selling me, or what megacorp they are associated with, but I don't see it yet.
Thank you very much for coming out and saying all of this.
I'm reminded of Wendell Berry's essay "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer"[1]:
> I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work.
This essay was apparently written in 1987. If Mr. Berry were to revisit the subject today, I suspect he would offer much the same sentiment, perhaps even more strongly.
> The last thing the world needs is more software.
My dream job in this field is to get paid to delete code.
Tangent: It frustrates me that it's apparently impossible to implement cat(1) in a truly portable way.
The problem is supporting unbuffered I/O (`cat -u`). Standard C simply can't do it. setvbuf(3) allows you to change the buffering on an I/O stream, but then fread(3) only allows you to read exact-sized blocks of data. You can only get a short read on EOF or error. So there is no way to say "give me as much data as is available, up to X amount of bytes" and therefore no way to implement unbuffered cat(1) efficiently using only ISO C. You need POSIX for that.
I fell in love with FORTH recently and wrote a bare-metal "OS" (barely!) for the IBM PC based on it. Funny how people are mostly implementing Forths rather than writing programs in Forth. Why is this?
I looked to see what Chuck Moore was up to; he's in his 80s and still tinkering and chatting with fans of his work, as recently as late last year:
As both a software person and a chess player, I really dislike this site. My impression of it, from maybe two hours total spent on it, is that it is slow and clunky and full of of "gamification" techniques and dark patterns intended to maximize "engagement". It's unfortunate. John Bartholomew (internet-famous chess player) seems like a nice guy but the site he co-founded has apparently been taken over by marketing people.
I'm trying to figure out what they are selling me, or what megacorp they are associated with, but I don't see it yet.