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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by smcl on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:21AM (#35651071)
"Cascade of Attention Deficit Teens" - it's a phrase coined by jwz (of Mozilla fame) to refer to how some some projects (he specifically targeted GNOME) tend to throw out mature-but-imperfect code and rewrite it from one version to the next rather than addressing bugs and problems in the existing software.

I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers, but I have seen the 1.x -> 2.x rewrite before too so he's not wrong overall. If you want to read the original article search for "The CADT Model" - I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :)

edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described

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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by lwkl on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:17AM (#35651404)
> edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described

Your browser probably just doesn’t send the referer header to protect your privacy.

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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by majou on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:18AM (#35651409)
Still has the referrer troll.
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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by smcl on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:38AM (#35651903)
Weirdly I am now seeing it again. I don't know what happened :-S
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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by account42 on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:37AM (#35651545)
> I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :)

IMO anyone who has not configured their browser not to send cross-domain Referer headers deserves whatever they get. There is no user benefit for this privacy leak and browsers should have trashed it decades ago.

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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by anthk on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:35AM (#35651890)
Gregory Casamento needs to build a GNUStep PPA for Ubuntu based distros, it would work great on libre derivatives such as Trisquel. Parabola has badly maintained repos for it, lacking even Gorm and ProjectCenter.

We need a DE for legacy devices as XFCE's development is not a sure thing with further GTK+ releases tied to Gnome and Red Hat.

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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by hedora on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:10AM (#35653180)
> I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers

Yeah, though I think of “teenage” more as a mindset in this case.

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Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration by pmontra on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:50AM (#35654614)
Sometimes it's easier to rewrite a module, given inputs and outputs and a good test suite, than to understand how it works. This is even more true if the original developer is no more available.

Rewriting a whole big library, not easy either way.

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