Hi On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:50:52PM +0300, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > On September 15, 2014 6:41:29 PM EEST, q...@c9x.me wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 02:21:25PM +0100, Maxime Coste wrote: > >> Hello, > >> [...] > >> Maxime Coste. > > > >I like your advertisement man, keep it up :). > >I also like advocating for change rather than > >flavorless copy. > > > >- Q. > Yes, I agree. > I also like how you post a C++ project with trillions of files, libraries, > dependencies and weird black magic, in a suckLESS list, over a hundred of > time.
Hard to resist talking about a project I spent most of my spare coding time on for the last 3 years. I agree 18000 is not small, but not that big either, clearly reasonable for the amount of things Kakoune does (and nope, I do not want to replace a 20 instructions function with a fork-exec to use 'tr' to replace tabs with spaces). 2 hard dependencies (boost and ncurses) with boost getting away once we get more widely available c++11 regexes is not unreasonable either. For weird black magic, not sure what you are talking about. And for C++, well, I know there is some vocal individuals against it on the sl mailing list, but I think most members are sensible, we do not need to stay frozen with C89, C++ is bigger than C, more complex, but provides a lot of abstraction features that makes it easier to reason and organize your program. I suspect most of the hatred I see here is due to ignorance, low familiarity with idiomatic C++ and exposure to horrible code (horrible code being writable in any language). So yeah, posted about that on the suckless mailing list, which I have been following for a long time, and whose philosophy I mostly share (and kept in mind while designing Kakoune). All that to say, yep, thats maybe the third thread talking about text editors where I answer referencing my personal code editor, sorry if I made you feel overwhelmed. > sorry if I sound mean, No worries, that is the internet, we all sound mean. Cheers, Maxime Coste.
