Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : boraxman
From : Omnibrain
Date : Sun Dec 11 2022 06:35:28



On Monday, December 12th boraxman muttered...
 Bo> My personal opinion is that icons are more confusing, unless a very tried 
 Bo> and true icon us used (floppy disk for save, scissors for cut, etc).  In 
 Bo> theory they are supposed to be easier, in practice, not.  I hate having 
 Bo> to over over an icon to find what it is for.

I added hover tooltips now. I thought the icons are self explaining - but maybe they're not. I'll think about that & investigate more. Maybe try out text again.



Twas Monday, December 12th when boraxman said...
 Bo> oops... I don't add :23 anymore - I suspect that's missing in your 
 Bo>  Om> URL.
 Bo> Add that and it should work. I'll fix that.
 Bo> 
 Bo> Yep, that fixed it.

Fixed in newly released 0.4.0 - broke that in one of my refactorings :/. I need to put more effort in the unit tests atm they're badly broken because of all the rewrites.

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

Difficult - but I think it's the way to go too if the project is worth it. Most projects don't need that but in some cases it can make sense. Almost all C libraries have plenty vulnerabilities that they won't when written in rust. However rust is no magic bullet but it helps. Personally I won't go back to c/c++ again.
(Except for very small ardunio projects)

In a bigger Desktop application for example GIMP I don't see much sense in that. But for let's say web browsers or security related software it can make sense. I can understand ppl that want to rewrite everything. We would surely live in a better world however the cost/gain ratio should be considered.
And in 5y a new language may pop up that's better than rust - do we rewrite again? 

On Monday, December 12th boraxman said...
 Bo> I briefly looked at the language, and it seemed to have promise, but the 
 Bo> issues with it, such as those I mentioned led me to stick with C++.

I wanted to learn it for a long time. I started this year and now I regret not having leaned it sooner. It's a very hard language to learn. I'm surprised that it's so widespread. But y it has weak spots and issues but it's the best language for system programming I know so far.





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