If you wanted to explain to a 10 year old how a button or switch can change between two things, like AM or FM on a radio, but didn't want to use a radio because it may be outdated... what example might you use?
@drewdevault since you mentioned ncurses in another post, if you get glib working, we should be able to get finch, the ncurses front end to libpurple, or @pidgin 's cousin should be pretty easy to get going..
I know people love hating on #systemd but there are so many things that are great about it. The journal is among the best (and the one that people seem to hate the most for reasons I find hard to relate to). Building a service with good logging is literally free, no code required, STDOUT/STDERR goes to the journal, you're done. Ingesting those logs into something like Loki is also free. #linux
@swelljoe I'm sure a big part of it is the change with lack of documented replacements or people just not finding them. For example, I finally learned a few months ago about using journalctl -u <unit> to just get that unit's logs. That along solved my biggest gripe with journalctl...
@rasterweb first of all, there's absolutely no reason to learn them all, especially domain specific languages.
Besides the fundamental differences between procedural, functional, and oop based languages, everything is pretty much the same with some syntax differences. Control flow and logic are the same among them all which basically leaves specific syntax and modules as what "needs" to be learned.
@rasterweb Arduino is more like C than C++ from what I've seen, but I haven't looked in a long time and that may have changed.
Lua is used all over, and syntatically it's basically javascript expect you have tables instead of objects, meta tables instead of prototypes, and arrays are indexed starting at 1 rather than 0.
@rasterweb and forks like that do tend to bring in new eyes and ideas although not always.
Aside from that, why do you need to find common ground? Especially since the scad stuff should be able to output an stl which would be a common ground...
@rasterweb But popularity is a horrible metric. There's no objectivity to it, but people still use it as a defacto standard and many confuse it as a constant because status quo is all they know/care about.
@rasterweb of course. Due to the things I do and tools I use, people are constantly "curious" about my choices. And many times insist that I'm doing things wrong by not using the popular thing. As you may have guessed, this gets exhausting quickly.
Me choosing different tools/whatever doesn't mean I'm obligated to define why I chose to use said tools to anyone.
Even when I've tried to be like "personal preference" someone wants to debate me on it..