On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:25:55AM +0000, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 08:56:58PM +0200, Quentin Rameau wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > This is not sane. There is no modern web engine which is suckless. > > > > > > Having a suckless front-end to those massive c++ object oriented brain > > > fuckages sounds way too much schizophrenic. > > > > > > The first step would be to code a modular modern web engine in simple > > > C or at least have an on-going effort towards it (which is a massive > > > work, see netsurf). > > > > > > That said, the real culprits are web designers not providing noscript > > > web portals to their web sites. > > > > Thanks for stating the obvious. > > I got the urge to recall that obvious to people here, coze it's discussing way > too much on the surf front-end without anything done on solving the real pb: > the web engine. > > I accounted for 3 other similar/critical issues while building my minimal > custom distro: > - the linux compiler, gcc, is slowly and surely turning into a c++ pile of > sh*t. (I was unrolling c++ into C from its libcpp component the other day, > I can see now that c++ in gcc is the work of sick minds or/and gangsters). > > - llvm (which, unlike gcc, has been a c++ pile of sh*t right from the start) > is > one of the worst pieces of software I have ever seen, and if you want to > compile GPU shaders you must have it. > > - harfbuzz, the _only_ unicode layout engine which has an interface changing > all the time, and a brain damaged implementation. I did a C partial port > from c++, and I can tell you about it is that the guys behind this code are > trash. All GFX toolkits are dependent on it, all web engines are dependent > on > it, that for unicode layout computation. > > The new obvious is: suckless is losing ground on critical pieces of software. > > What seems to be the only way to get alternatives to those components: several > teams of several commited to suckless philosophy devs in a clear and sane > full-time "comfort zone" for several years. Coze, on the other side, many of > them are full-time employees in huge corporations/fondations with a luxuary > visibility and luxuary comfort zone. > > -- > Sylvain >
In the time of writing this obvious whine/rant you could have send a simple patch to fix a bug or help the community. Instead you wrote this rant and wasted everyones time. As a suckless user you're not entitled to anything. -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
