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Re:Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, an...
by tomhoward on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:21AM
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You've clearly got a strongly-held point of view on this, but for a counter-point, this right here is the main point whose importance you diminish:
> If someone wanted to change it, they'd email one of the maintainers
In the modern world (given how busy everyone is and how overflowing everyone's inbox is), in practice, this likely translates to: the document ceases to be maintained.
> it strikes me as a fairly damning indictment of the state of the web
That's one take.
Alternately: how great it is that an infrastructure and culture now exists in which documents like this can be published and actively maintained by multiple people, without the friction-points of email & FTP, and without the failure-points of individuals and their contactability & availability.
Also, if there is a problem with rhe inclusion of something on the list (severe vulnerability that isn't patched, etc) people can have a conversation about it in the issues section.
IMHO, this is a better option than random blog posts or single-page-domain-spam for the above reasons. I dont know if a new "awesome X" repo is appropriate for HN but they are certainly useful for plenty of people given their popularity, and I have seen all of the above happen in other instances, so they seem better to me than a run-of-the-mill blog post or single page domain.