Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem

Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by UweSchmidt on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:50PM (#24014596)

There are many complaints but there doesn't seem to be a real movement to make/use/cultivate small and fast software for all purposes.

I'd join.

Fragmented parts could be suckless.org, old cheap thinkpads from ebay, fast Linux distros, unix command line tools, retrocomputing, raspberry pi; all things with communities and fans who like a certain quality, simplicity and the good old days.

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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by shoozza on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:37PM (#24016128)

There is also handemade.network. Maybe that's something for you.

https://handmade.network/manifesto

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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by cblconfederate on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:26PM (#24016439)

Someone could write a manifesto. I hear clock cycles are bad for the environment. And what if we want to run that software on our spaceship on the way to A Centauri?

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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by black_puppydog on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:04PM (#24015319)

check out the suckless suite of software. it's neat :)

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Re:Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem by xvilka on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:51PM (#24017346)

Suckless is neat, but it stuck in the past, in a way. Using modern programming languages and native frameworks is the way to go. But the philosophy is exactly what required.

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