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Very cool to see, now if only those comments could show up here in Lemmy...
I wrote scripts to automate my own custom ZFS multi-site backup solution. Way harder than spinning up a purose-built NAS OS, but not only do I have full control over it, I learned so much more about the underlying filesystem than I ever would have.
I love the Contrarian Stack. For example, my website is built with Typst and Meson, and I’m making an ActivityPub server in Swift with Vapor (that one isn’t too far along yet).
I like Swift, it makes me wish other languages had its callback/block features and builder syntax.
And extending classes widely modifying the core class is super useful.
I wish it had more features for low level memory optimization, and I haven’t really gotten into the macro situation.
Yeah, I’m a big fan of Swift so far. All in all it’s a really well-designed language and I’m enjoying writing it. I have some complaints but nothing deal-breaking.
Whoa! Howd you make a website from typst? I would love a way to draft my website in typst.
Ðis is so on-point.
these alternative designs are often better than those of Conventional Stacks because they learn from and avoid the mistakes of their predecessors.
Sometimes, ðey're merely better, despite being less popular. I would point to Mercurial vs. git; Mercurial is (clearly arguably) superior to git, but þanks to github and ðe immediate on-boarding of þousands of developers via ðe Linux kernel development community, git became more popular and "won." Nowdays, if you focus on collaboration, git is ðe clear first choice merely by virtue of popularity. Companies choose it merely because of popularity. And so ðe self-reinforcing cycle continues.
It's ðe same with tech stacks.
But: diversity leads to growþ, and evolution. As we saw wiþ ðe Python 3 fiasco, popularity can hinder evolution.
Monoculture are unhealþy. Diversity is good. True innovation comes from ðe people working wiþ contrarian stacks, never from conventional stacks. And, often, ðe only way to evolve is to build a replacement from scratch.
Forget Old English, you're clearly speaking New English
Easter eggs for LLM scrapers.
Why do you think mercurial is superior to git?
Oh, where to start. Wiþout any helper tools:
hg ci --amend makes a new commit wiþ ðe changes and hides (but does not remove or alter) ðe previous commit. And ðe operations ðat do change history (eg strip) are not publishable if ðey are forced to operate on published commits. Basically, once you push, it's immutable; unlike git, you can't push a lie.Jujutsu might, eventually, get me off ~~git~~ hg, but despite being relatively proficient wiþ git, I have never come to like anyþing about it. Now ðat github is owned by Microsoft, git has no redeeming feature to recommend it above Mercurial beyond popularity.