Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : Omnibrain
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Dec 11 2022 19:56:53

 Om>  Bo> I'll keep trying it out.  I did get a little confused with the icons 
 Om>  Bo> the top when connected.  There were no tooltips or text to say what t
 Om>  Bo> were.  Personally, I prefer text menus over trying to figure out what
 Om>  Bo> icon means.
 Om> 
 Om> I can add tooltips. Icons have the benefit of beeing easier to
 Om> recognize. Once I get a crate for i18n I'll may switch to text.
 Om> 

My personal opinion is that icons are more confusing, unless a very tried and true icon us used (floppy disk for save, scissors for cut, etc).  In theory they are supposed to be easier, in practice, not.  I hate having to over over an icon to find what it is for.

 Om>  Bo> Also, I'm having trouble connecting to minds eye, I'll troubleshoot 
 Om>  Bo> further and let you know.  It's not Minds Eye BBS as I can connect wi
 Om>  Bo> Syncterm.
 Om> 
 Om> oops... I don't add :23 anymore - I suspect that's missing in your URL.
 Om> Add that and it should work. I'll fix that.
 Om> 
 Om> 
 Om> boraxman around Sunday, December 11th...

Yep, that fixed it.

 Om>  Bo> The choice if rust was an interesting choice.  The source tree after 
 Om>  Bo> compilation was 1.6GB!!! That is not including files in the ~/.cargo 
 Om>  Bo> directory that were also added (its 550MB).  The binary itself after 
 Om>  Bo> stripping was 29MB, which is OK.
 Om> 
 Om> Rust binaries are not well known for beeing small. But for beeing secure
 Om> and fast. The release version on my system is ~11MB fyi.
 Om> 

Yeah, I find rust seems to have a lot of zealots who think that rewriting things in rust is the way to go.

I briefly looked at the language, and it seemed to have promise, but the issues with it, such as those I mentioned led me to stick with C++.

I think 11MB for a program which has CRT emulation is decent.

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