Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/18/2017 2:11 PM, ketmar wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
I'm curious about your client project. Can you post a link?
sure:
http://repo.or.cz/knntp.git
I'm curious what problem this solves that other nntp clients do not.
it perfectly fits my needs. i usually see little reason to "adapt"
myself to something if i can write my own thingy. besides, writing code
is fun.
i tried pan, snews, some other readers i forgot, and they aren't fit. i
wanted the UI i did, i wanted twitlists i wrote, and so on. and i
wanted reader written in D, 'cause i hate to work with a code in
another language. ;-)
I see that its display is in text mode.
no. ;-) it looks like it, but it isn't. just take a closer look on
screenshot: the font is proportional. but is was designed to look
old-fashioned, yeah.
One nice thing about text mode is it works well on low-bandwidth
connections. I've been heavily criticized for not using a graphical
IDE, but I work a lot through remote connections, and I've never been
able to get a remote desktop to work at a reasonable speed, even when
it is in my house and the connection is not speed limited.
Text mode tools present no problems there.
tbh, most of my tools are console-based. but this time i wanted to do
something with graphics. yet my terminal tastes still manifest
'emselves, i guess.
for writing my code i am using my own terminal-based editor. it has
support for simple syntax highlighting, but that's all: no fancy
"integration" features, no "project management" (besides multiple edit
buffers), no autocompletion. the only "advanced" thing it does is rdmd
output parsing, so i can jump to error location with a single keypress.
yet it is lightning fast. no, really, no slowdowns even with 25+
megabyte(!) files.
i am also using my own terminal emulator too. this one is in C, 'cause
i didn't finished D rewrite yet. ;-)
