I have no use for this project and absolutely 100% love reading every single thing coming out of it. SerenityOS, Haiku, and Dolphin seem to reliably produce some of the most interesting posts and docs. I don’t know what it is, but something about this type of (pseudo)-retro computing just brings out some wonderful geeking out that I hope doesn’t ever go away.
I think it’s because these are real hackers, in the noble sense. When I read a story about a Rust or Go languages or backend, you cannot shake off the feeling that people are trying to promote themselves, or trying to sell something either directly to users, or to a cloud company. I choose Rust and Go as an example, because these are usually my favorite topic on lobste.rs and the orange website, but Javascript and others are the same.
On the other side, these people (SerenityOS, Haiku, Dolphin, …) do not give a damn about selling crap. They’re just having fun on their spare time and often on their own dime. This is the same as some other people who might knit or customize their motor vehicule on their spare time. It feels genuine, and it doesn’t feel like somebody is trying to sell you something or promote themselves.
This resonates with me, yes. These projects have momentum in a way that “reimplement Linux in Rust” can’t, because they’re organically weird and nerdy.
I have no use for this project and absolutely 100% love reading every single thing coming out of it. SerenityOS, Haiku, and Dolphin seem to reliably produce some of the most interesting posts and docs. I don’t know what it is, but something about this type of (pseudo)-retro computing just brings out some wonderful geeking out that I hope doesn’t ever go away.
I think it’s because these are real hackers, in the noble sense. When I read a story about a Rust or Go languages or backend, you cannot shake off the feeling that people are trying to promote themselves, or trying to sell something either directly to users, or to a cloud company. I choose Rust and Go as an example, because these are usually my favorite topic on lobste.rs and the orange website, but Javascript and others are the same.
On the other side, these people (SerenityOS, Haiku, Dolphin, …) do not give a damn about selling crap. They’re just having fun on their spare time and often on their own dime. This is the same as some other people who might knit or customize their motor vehicule on their spare time. It feels genuine, and it doesn’t feel like somebody is trying to sell you something or promote themselves.
This resonates with me, yes. These projects have momentum in a way that “reimplement Linux in Rust” can’t, because they’re organically weird and nerdy.
I understand like 50% of what’s going on in articles like these, but can’t stop reading them once I start