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Re:We shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s micr... by antepodius on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:27PM (#21531421)
It guarantees the userbase is elite.
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Re:We shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s micr... by pnako on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:35PM (#21531487)
What has the elite userbase of Haskell produced? Almost nothing.
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Re:We shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s micr... by azinman2 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:23PM (#21532227)
And tiny. Why is this a good thing?
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Re:We shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s micr... by antepodius on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:16PM (#21611136)
A tiny userbase working on tony codebases that implement just enough feautures that the program's worth it for elite users can be worth it to elite users.
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