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defending electron on main 

electron kinda sucks but like, what else is there for cross platform GUI development? GTK is a messy pain in the ass to get working (especially on windows) qt has weirdly restrictive (and slowly becoming more restrictive) licensing policies as well as being somewhat tied to C++ (somewhat, not totally - i've made a python project in qt before, but ended up having to use the C++ documentation and figure out how to "pythonise" the information), java swing looks gross and requires the JVM, tk and wxwidgets are undercooked and lacking basic important features...

and then there's electron. sure it's bloated, but it works everywhere, with many many languages, has very few OS-specific quirks, uses a design and markup language that many people are already familiar with, doesn't restrict you exclusively to the "native" widgets, supports a bunch of cool UI features out of the box (animations, gradients, flex/grid...), and can even be made into a webapp with ease

also electron is definitely bloated, but given that my decade+ old eeePC could run vscode, a browser, and discord at the same time, i find it hard to believe that a single electron app brings your whole system to its knees

maybe all the people complaining about being unable to run discord really are on 15 year old netbooks

aaaaaaaaaaaa where the fuck did I leave all my rainbow leds.... :>>

taking a bunch if vitamin supplements, surely one of these will placebo my brain into working

holding up debate as the arbiter of truth is an actively destructive value and the fact that it's central to liberalism is a damning indictment of the entire project

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working on a web emulator for my ESP32 project, as it's becoming a much bigger and better project :DD
(that's pixie.garden/~/Thingies/tamafo for reference)

every time I see Eduard Siddon being quoted my heart skips a beat in the hopes of yet another reply guy getting absolutely destroyed

election bullshit 

p mad at someone spouting that even if you're not a US citizen calling for Bernie is "the most important thing you can do right now"

no it fucking isn't, go do direct action, volunteer at a soup kitchen

election folk :dont_at_me:

working on a web emulator for my ESP32 project, as it's becoming a much bigger and better project :DD
(that's pixie.garden/~/Thingies/tamafo for reference)

evil, dark energy 

just running through some quick concepts

federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated federated recursion

oh TIL you can long-press an image in to get the image description in a toast

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