Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by toastal on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:25AM
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I disagree and maybe I'm not 'fun', but to me there's a lot of garbage in this README. Scrolling through the plaintext document with lists of badges, manually managed table of contents, photos of contributors, miscellaneous HTML, you can see that there's so much content that isn't helping you understand the project—things that should be I a homepage or separate dedicated file. I can't read this without rendering it. The music while somewhat interesting, I don't think has a place in this document—especially linking out a proprietary music streaming platform.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by dimitrios1 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:00AM
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Ease up on the high expectations. It's just a fun project on github, not a publication in an academic journal.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by dgb23 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:38AM
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People love shitting on OSS projects. Tech choices, docs, tooling, testing, number of contributors (both "Too many!" and "Bus factor!"), choice of license, there is already X, why not use Y, we already did that in the 80's... Basically anything.
As if other people writing and sharing code freely is a huge problem.
I think it is different when a project is part of a commercial offering, or funded by something you participate in.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by Aeolun on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:37AM
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> People love shitting on OSS projects
People love shitting on closed source projects too, but the circle of people you can reasonably do that in is fairly limited.
Everyone can see this code, so you can shout it to the world.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by dylan604 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:17PM
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Why does being closed source limit anything? People on hear openly shit on Apple, Google, M$, blah blah without limitations. Sure, with OSS you can leave shit comments directly on the project page, it's not like people are not screaming on Twitter or other socials about closed source stuff which I'd imagine has a lot larger of an audience than the smaller tech people looking at OSS project pages
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by hogyncymraeg on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:34AM
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Not only that, but it comes at a personal cost. Few OSS project maintainers will tell you this but time spent on the project is time not spent with family and friends. They invest in these projects too.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by throw03172019 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:16AM
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They did put it at the bottom of the README. I would understand your frustration if it was at the top or in-between important content.