hot take: the "tiny"/"clean" software trend is overrated
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Replying to @whitequark
Overrated, or appreciated for all the wrong reasons...
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Replying to @RichFelker @whitequark
Saving 100k or even many MBs is useless in most applications. But killing gigantic dep webs full of buggy stuff isn't.
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Replying to @RichFelker
your gigantic dependency web is my only option for doing something does your fav "suckless" tool support IMEs? thought so
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Replying to @whitequark
I'm not with suckless. But plain Xlib supports input methods & the api is much nicer than gtk, etc.
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Replying to @RichFelker
I had the misfortune of using it and I do not agree; that said, I don't think you can e.g. perform input in i3-input using uim
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Replying to @whitequark
uim at least had a bridge for xim; not sure if it's still maintained.
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Replying to @RichFelker
well the end result is that doing what actual people need makes software "bloated" most of the time and we can't have that can we?
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Replying to @whitequark
Bloat is not a natural consequence of meeting user requirements. It's just bad sw engineering.
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Replying to @RichFelker @whitequark
Quite often it's about not understanding the requirements and trying to make an overly general solution instead. See pango vs harfbuzz.
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Even if you do want fancy layout, failure to factor that from character->glyph mapping logic was bad design.
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