lw64

@lw64@floss.social

Hi, my name is Lorenz, I am 19 years old, I do a lot of things, and I am interested in even more things :)

I am contributor to the #OpenSource Software projects #GNOME and #Vala and I am GNOME Foundation Member.

I am posting about that, but I want to share other things as well.

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lw64, to rust German

My expectation: will replace most other low level languages for relatively low level use cases. For example platform libraries, kernels, OS components, like services etc.
But I also think that a lot of these projects (especially platform libraries) care about that they won't just be able to be used by other Rust code.
Also my expectation: For a lot of these projects, will replace , because it just supports more features, and makes integration into an existing system easier.

soller, to random
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I wrote a PDF reader with libcosmic yesterday. While it is very basic and not likely to be ready for the first COSMIC release, it is pure rust, lightweight, GPU accelerated, and highly portable.

lw64,

@soller Saying an application is "pure Rust" feels to me like saying " I am pure [nationality]"

I don't get how every dependency needs to be 100% written in Rust, otherwise it's not "safe" or something. Different programming languages have different strengths, and Rust isn't the only language you can write "safe" code with.

Just my opinion, and I guess you didn't mean it, but just saying...
#Rust #rustlang

lw64,

@ekuber @soller I understand that.
It just very often appears to me, that there is an unreasonable bias against "non-pure-rust" code. (Not saying this is the case here)
Like when you are writing a PDF viewer, are you really going to fix the PDF parser? And why not just use a non-rust parser thats proven for years and supports PDFs much better? Then you maybe need more work to integrate it, but you also don't need to fix it yourself.

whynothugo, to random
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What the Linux ecosystem needs right now is a solid community-maintained distribution for non-technical people.

Like, if someone who's using Windows asks me right now "which Linux can I use on my laptop", I have no answer.

My partner tried Fedora, but it was so unstable and broken all over the place that she asked me to get rid of it, even if it mean starting from scratch again.

She now uses PopOS and I've had to configure dozens of things for her that would have been trivial on Windows 7.

lw64,

@gregorni A major manufacturer shipping Linux preinstalled on a low end/cheap device for the mass market would have a huge impact in my opinion.

lw64,

@gregorni It would help in the sense of user numbers. Sure, more users doesn't mean it gets improved, maybe even there will be more complaints, but it will give more relevance. It won't be a "niche" thing anymore.

sonny, to GNOME
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GSoC didn't even officially started @vixalientoots already made Workbench able to compile and run TypeScript code 🤯 🎩

lw64, (edited )

@sonny @vixalientoots I guess there will be a lot of time to port demos to #Typescript then :D

sonny, to GNOME
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Got very excited by @matt demo of AccessKit integration in

AccessKit is a cross-platform abstraction for accessibility infrastructure written in Rust.

His work will bring a11y support for GTK on macOS and Windows as well as for the new accessibility architecture on Linux code-named "Newton".

https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

lw64,

Just watched it and it is really interesting. I am so fascinated by these completely alternative ways to interact with a computer.
The screen reader does not tell what it can see on the screen, but rather communicates directly the interface of an app to the user, its structure and content.
I hope this new accessibility stack will be ready as soon as possible! It will be like an update from 1 (or 2?) to current (right now 46) for sighted users.

lw64, to Eurovision

Just finished watching
Overall there were so many really amazing songs!
My personal favorites were the Irish song and the one from Cyprus, but a bunch of others were outstanding as well including the Austrian entry that won.
Also I guess it is a sign of progress that the German entry the first time since years wasn't last xD

danirabbit, (edited ) to random
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Should I become a vtuber

lw64,

@danirabbit I am curious, what did you use previously?

lw64,

@danirabbit interesting. configuring a 2d character sounds like a lot of work to me. I looked once in using vpuppr with a model create with vroid studio. vroid studio is properietary, but you can create models for free and use them freely.

lw64, to GNOME

Excited to see Typescript support for Workbench ( app by @sonny and others) work in progress!!
https://github.com/workbenchdev/Workbench/pull/938

lw64,

I strongly believe the diversity in language bindings for is a great advantage over other platforms and we should keep it as much as we can.

lw64, to random German

First time MeetingPoint runs on a phone!
Video sharing (from the builtin camera) and audio also works. Its in the GNOME shell-dev room.

Screenshot taken by @rmader on a at

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