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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by tluyben2 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:02AM (#23731102)
No mention of JS; not even a Gemini server in Node[0]. Finally a sane place to hang out! Kidding, but only half. The 'everything must be done in JS' is fairly annoying imho.

[0]https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/softw...

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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by flatlanderwoman on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:04AM (#23731117)
A Gemini implementation in JS: https://github.com/derhuerst/gemini
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by tluyben2 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:06AM (#23731120)
Great, doesn't disappoint; includes horrible emoji's :]
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by flatlanderwoman on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:28PM (#23736214)
Emoji's are part of Unicode. Not bloat.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by tluyben2 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:04AM (#23738720)
I wasn't thinking of bloat; it just looks unprofessional, in my opinion, and it is also very related to people who work with js almost exclusively.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by IshKebab on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:11AM (#23731526)
Sure but "you can't use JS at all" is fairly annoying too.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by tluyben2 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:45AM (#23731875)
Sure, I would never say that; pick the best tool for the job. Just 'everything' with JS is definitely not that.
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