Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Anselm Garbe
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 09:54, Nick wrote: > Anybody else enjoying Go? Or hating it? Have I become lazy and > trendy in my middle age? Nice try. C89 (or C99) clearly remains the preferred language for suckless software. However, when forced into typical day job developments to fund your well

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Bobby Powers
Markus Wichmann wrote: > I have a different problem with Go: Their insistence on reinventing the > wheel. Complaining about reinventing the wheel on this mailing list is a bold and hilarious move. A+ > Would also not be a problem if the Go runtime entirely supplanted the > libc. It can/does?

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Michael Hendricks
> Anybody else enjoying Go? Or hating it? I've been writing Go code daily for about six years now. Overall I like it. It sucks less than most languages I've worked with. I enjoy that the language has stayed small (~80 page spec) and the developers have declined nearly all feature requests for

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 08:41:54PM +0100, Silvan Jegen wrote: > The opinions on Go are mixed on this list from what I remember. Oh boy, that again. If you wait a minute, someone will tell you that Go is bloated because a Hello World clocks in at 2MB or something. I have a different problem with

Re: [dev] [dwm [st] Problem with w3m-image

2019-01-25 Thread Abhijith Krishnan
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:53:41PM +0530, Abhijith Krishnan wrote: > > w3m in st when using dwm as WM is not able to show images in websites. It is > > working with urxvt in dwm. The weird thing is that w3m in st is able to > >

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Silvan Jegen
Hi [2019-01-25 17:53] Nick > Quoth Hiltjo Posthuma: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:21:26PM +, Nick wrote: > > > That way we can devote the mailing list to more productive pursuits, > > > like arguing for the millionth time that C++ is terrible. > > > > > > > Don't keep spamming the

Re: [dev] [dwm [st] Problem with w3m-image

2019-01-25 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:53:41PM +0530, Abhijith Krishnan wrote: > w3m in st when using dwm as WM is not able to show images in websites. It is > working with urxvt in dwm. The weird thing is that w3m in st is able to > show images fine when using i3 as WM. Is there any solution or > workaround

[dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Nick
Quoth Hiltjo Posthuma: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:21:26PM +, Nick wrote: > > That way we can devote the mailing list to more productive pursuits, > > like arguing for the millionth time that C++ is terrible. > > > > Don't keep spamming the mailinglist with the same things then. It is up to

[dev] [dwm [st] Problem with w3m-image

2019-01-25 Thread Abhijith Krishnan
w3m in st when using dwm as WM is not able to show images in websites. It is working with urxvt in dwm. The weird thing is that w3m in st is able to show images fine when using i3 as WM. Is there any solution or workaround for this?

Re: [dev] Building workarounds to libxft bug into dwm, st and dmenu

2019-01-25 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:21:26PM +, Nick wrote: > Quoth Alexander Krotov: > > It is a known bug in libxft: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/issues/6 > > > > You can remove Noto fonts as a workaround. > > Is there still resistance amongst maintainers of st, dwm and dmenu

[dev] Building workarounds to libxft bug into dwm, st and dmenu

2019-01-25 Thread Nick
Quoth Alexander Krotov: > It is a known bug in libxft: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/issues/6 > > You can remove Noto fonts as a workaround. Is there still resistance amongst maintainers of st, dwm and dmenu to work around this in the code? Something like the recent patch

Re: [dev] [st] crashing terminal

2019-01-25 Thread Alexander Krotov
On 25/01/2019 12:13, loku...@web.de wrote: > Hello, this is my first time posting on a mailing list, so i hope > everything will work out well. > > Here is my problem: Whenever i use terminal based application like > 'neomutt' or 'mpsyt' the terminal will crash with an output similar > to (only

[dev] [st] crashing terminal

2019-01-25 Thread lokus06
Hello, this is my first time posting on a mailing list, so i hope everything will work out well. Here is my problem: Whenever i use terminal based application like 'neomutt' or 'mpsyt' the terminal will crash with an output similar to (only the numbers change) # X Error of failed request: