I was wondering if comments alongside source code are not read for reasons other than them being likely to be out of date. Maybe its because ... syntax highlighting makes them less readable?
Is Fortran usable as a C substitute, or as an improvement over C unlike C++? As an example, what kind of software uses your code?
Fortran's verbosity is ... less tolerable than Ada's, and the column-major arrays may surprise serious C devs. But it does many other things right, and is already part of the toolchain in big shops.
Sure, it isn't new and shiny, but that isn't bad for risk-averse managers.
@lxo the #GDB mailing list seemed inactive, and Arsen: on IRC mentioned this as your idea for an #LSP server, so ...
[ Big fan, especially of your linux-libre work
and your stint on the FSF board ]
As a #Cpp dev, it is a sorry state - impotent ctags/etags/global on one side, the overkill that is ccls on the other. I came round to DWARF debuginfo as a reliable source, but not wanting to build off libelf myself ... and to your idea apparently, of using GDB itself as a langserver.
fraid I don't know, I only came up with that possibility when asked to briefly look into what it would take to implement it in GCC, where I didn't think it would fit. I figured GDB had the full-program context it would take, unlike GCC, that sees one translation unit at a time, and that was the extent of my involvement. if anything came out of it, I probably wasn't told, but if I was, I forgot. FWIW, I haven't ever interacted with a language server, this was all an exercise of imagination many years ago.
@tetrislife@k9ox there was a bunch of experiments about five years ago on federating #TiddlyWiki, and we built the necessary primitives but it never really got traction. See the thread at https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/E_AFE06F-EA/m/WY7-MtUSBQAJ for an overview of the early work. The approach we used was even simpler than ActivityPub because it didn't require a programmable server, just static file hosting. (1/2)
Does anybody store links as ... entries in their device's addressbook? Store a "Website" field, no "Phone" field, and keywords in the name fields. It might even be standards-compliant, and hence as easy to export and back up as your contacts. And your contacts search will be usable for bookmark search.
I have recently started doing this, and don't yet know how it will work out.
@tetrislife
I tried this with Obsidian and make up my own YAML and use Dataview plugin to make a nice list of all my bookmarks. Of course, it'll never look as sleek as special bookmark sites. But damn, I have total freedom! Every bookmark is a .md note file. So whatever software breaks down, I still have access to my bookmarks with any markdown editor, or even with normal text editors.
Everything the OP says is accomplished by #AGPL + https://spi-inc.org without the social overheads their proposal has.
The most useful point was probably about the number of "me-too" projects that abound in #FOSS. The most irritating for me way back was #GNU Sather. Focusing on formats/protocols is useful, and the #4opens approach soounds better for that than FOSS.
I'm not aware of SPI being a legal or financial umbrella for any fediverse projects, nor any of the older Open Source Foundations. FSF is the only Foundation that kind of does, as the legal host of the GNU Project and G social.
@tetrislife I think what the Social Coding folks want to see is many guilds forming, so together they can form what the Microsolidarity folks call Crowds (mutual benefit networks made up of Congregations, each made up of a number of small Crews). The theory is these could serve the same purpose as the Foundations. But in a more horizontal and widely distributed way. More resilient. Less social overhead overall.
#ActivityPub#spam seems to be spreading nowadays. It isn't new, I moved away from my previous instance because it didn't have active mod volunteers.
#Snikket's idea of invites (#XMPP, not AP) seems like a good way to both control spam and onboard users. Mods can rate-limit account creation by judiciously creating invites. Users can generate 1 invite each, but can expect to also get banned if their invitee is a spammer. User-invited users would have a real account to bootstrap their connections.