They would like to own every step of the process, and people actually put in the time to build apps on their platform and people line up to buy their hardware.
Put up or shut up fool. Anyone can write a blog asking for a rewrite. Until you start taking real actions, you can't be taken seriously by the people who actually matter to these projects.
>sql alternative #1427904 that absolutely nobody will ever use
Love it or hate it, sql is a standard and there is a ton of knowledge (stackoverflow answers, books, tutorials) and tooling (query builders, orms). This is either hopelessly naive, or hopelessly arrogant.
It's easier to pull out a soapbox and make ridiculous speeches like these, than to actually make a gui application.
If you're making something for free or for fun, then let curiosity guide you. Bureaucrats like yourself can comment all you want. I'll be making applications.
Great point. You could say that the "lies" are propaganda, as much as the advertisement that they are the vehicle for. Inundated with this much propaganda, which points to the impotence of the individual, no wonder we're seeing so much mass unrest.
Love to see the Perl team discussing these issues in such a thoughtful way. Over the years I have learned to value stability and backwards compatibility, through hard lessons (which were often quite expensive to my employer). But no one value is good or bad, per se, rather they should be selected carefully: and that is the point I took away from this article.
This is the comment I wish I had made. The transition from 2 to 3 was terrible for end users, distros, and app developers. I wonder if redhat is trying to embrace/extend/extinguish because it's impossible for me to see gtk (and gnome) teams actions as anything less than overtly hostile.
StatusIcon and AppIndicator is extremely annoying.
Clientside decorations, ridiculous headerbar, button+hamburger menus, etc, etc. They are trying their absolute hardest to copy Mac os, and making sure everyone's stuff breaks in the meantime.
GTK is openly hostile to 3rd party developers and theme makers, ever since gtk became synonymous with gnome (around 3.0). This is going to be a nightmare for open-source developers and distros, which will likely be forced to support both for a long time to come.
Me? I'll keep writing tcl/tk applications. It's stable, cross-platform, and did I mention it's stable?