This is nonsense. Old software was not fast. Computers used to take minutes to start up. That’s not an exaggeration. MS Word could easily take 30 seconds to open.

Obviously if you run it on modern hardware it’s going to be lightning fast, but not because the authors cared more about performance and efficiency than we do now.

Zig is a much smaller community and has already had some drama. You can’t magically avoid it. All communities of a sufficient size have drama.

It might be true that Rust has a bit more drama because of the high concentration of “cat girls” as flying_sheep put it, but I don’t think there’s enough data to really say. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if Zig attracts similar characters given its closely related goals.

Happy twelfth birthday!

That’s just nonsense. There are plenty of competent nice people working there. You can say that about leadership if you like.

Shit.

Glad it had a happy ending (as much as possible anyway). Also very interesting! Especially the bit about it being difficult to getting stuck in a psychiatric hospital.

I also find it interesting how much it took before they went to the hospital. #merica.

It’s going to have terrible UX, a complete pain to build, the contribution process is going to be some git send-email mailing list nonsense, it’s going to expect you to have read the manual (probably in info just to be difficult) cover to cover before you even consider using it.

But on the other hand it probably has at least decent documentation, it probably works reasonably well, and there’s zero chance of rug pulls, closed source add-ons, etc.

Overall I would say it has negative connotations. If you said “check out this package manager, Fooly”, I’d think “ok might be good, might not”. If you said “check out this package manager, GNU Fooly”, I would say hell no. It’ll be awful.

It’s the software equivalent of books that have “how to read this book” sections.

Ah you’re expecting users to browse with no JS enabled. Does Radicle’s web interface actually require JS anyway? And either way that’s no reason to pick C over Typescript.

Cradicle’s web interface improves security by keeping all the complex functionality in the HTML server and serving pure scriptless HTML to web browsers instead.

That isn’t really any more secure.

I hear it allows more control over compiler behavior

Not in a good way - more like a “oh good what compiler flags do I need to mess with to make this code work?” way 😄

there should be radicle apps in multiple coding languages, like there are BitTorrent apps in multiple coding languages.

Reasonable. C is still a poor choice though.

Is Tor really “straightforward”? It sounds anything but.

Also C? In 2026? Radicle seems to be written mostly in Rust, with Typescript for the web interface. Why on earth would you want to downgrade to C?