Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
by nemetroid on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:00PM
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It's worth mentioning in this context that the thing making Foliate difficult to build and run on older platforms is the fact that it's written in modern Javascript (and therefore needs a modern version of gjs): https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/issues/45
Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
by JasonFruit on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:18PM
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I don't like Electron — I've brought some of my problems on myself by my love of using minimally-capable old hardware — but this is by far the best statement of the argument for it I've ever heard.
Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
by lpcvoid on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:32PM
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I propose on building native tools that have all relevant libraries statically linked. Yeah, executable will grow in size, but it's the best of both world : portability, speed and not using javascript.
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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
by dang on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:19PM
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Snark isn't ok here and personal attacks will get you banned. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to those rules when posting to HN? We'd be grateful.
One of the bullet points from the Meson website:
> * fun!
So if I understand correctly, this modern build tool created to replace all the extant time-wasting build tools got memorialized in Debian in a half-baked state where it's not compatible with future versions.
Also-- the fact that you had to leave the hardened bank vault of apt through the screen door of pip... to install a thing to build other things to run on your system.
I love it.
> If so, why is it I so seldom can can get anything written for GJS, or Node, or a Python program not my own, to install and run without a three-hour yak shave?
... is the question that explains why Electron exists. Every comment on HN about its size, memory usage, and insecurity doubles as a critique of all the problems you just hit with a Linux system.
Electron: "Memory and disk space is cheap enough, but your time will never be."