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@zardoz03 It really seems that retrocomputing has a very uncomfortable number of "retvrn" types disinterested in actually examining the pros/cons of their blorboware. So this kind of project makes a depressing amount of sense, in the sense that it's not surprising.
@vtrlx like its probably part and parcel of software being a pop culture, since its a) talking about system simplicity while b) ignoring minimalist systems like scheme and smalltalk due to esthetic and not technical reasons and c) colocating "simplicity" with the reactionary idea of it.
even though gnome is actually minimal, because its meant to be a decent DE, its implementation isnt, so we hit b and c
@zardoz03 GNOME's implementation not being minimal is what kept me away from it for so long. It was only once I understood their approach to UX that I came to appreciate GNOME.
I really want to like Scheme, but needing to know dozens of SRFIs to use the language does not gel well with me. At least I have Lua, which in my heart is a better Scheme anyway.
@vtrlx wrt scheme i dont really know many srfis but there are aliasing srfis out there (i.e. srfis that name other srfi numbers as identifiers), but theres 2 and i think the newest one caused issues with how it got accepted https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-261/srfi-261.html ^ https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-97/srfi-97.html.
i like scheme more because its what i first learned and because its minimal enough i could make a system like it if i wanted to
