Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by recursivedoubts on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @12:23PM (#41047826)

i can think of no act more deviously effective in bringing down the american empire than introducing the NPM ecosystem into its vital bloodstream, well played comrade!

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Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by rawgabbit on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @12:32PM (#41047945)

If you had to select a single programming language, for US government agencies to use, which one would you pick?

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Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by recursivedoubts on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @12:41PM (#41048061)

go or java, in that order

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Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by rawgabbit on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:23PM (#41049761)

Thank you for your reply. If you were asked develop a web application using Go, how would you go about doing it?

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Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by jazoom on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @04:20PM (#41050379)

I would assume he would use HTMX, being the creator of it.

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Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by rawgabbit on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @05:20PM (#41051026)

Thank you

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Re:Switzerland now requires all government software to be op... by recursivedoubts on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:35PM (#41051711)

Yeah, go w/ htmx + vanillajs (or possibly alpine.js or https://github.com/gnat/surreal) would be a reasonable option for many government projects. You can audit the htmx codebase and it is dependency free (same w/ alpine & surreal) and self-host everything, go compiles to a single binary for deployment.

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