scrivanodev
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Developer of Scrivano for Handwritten Notes
https://scrivanolabs.github.io
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Comment · 10 months ago
I can only speak for Flatpak, but I found its packaging workflow and restricted runtime terrible to work with. Lots of undocumented/hard to find behaviour and very painful to integrate with existing package managers (e.g. vcpkg).
Comment · 10 months ago
There shouldn't be any noticeable performance difference between Qt 5 and Qt 6, unless you're using QML.
Comment · 10 months ago
I also think Qt/QML is a very underrated technology. I have been developing a handwritten notes for Linux/Windows using Qt Quick for quite some time [0]. The experience has been a mixed bag though.
I've encountered tons of bugs (many of them still unfixed) that I had to find very ugly workarounds for. Also, while a declarative style UI language can have a lot of benefits, it does also have a lot of limitations. For example, in my application I required a (infinite) canvas to rendering the ink strokes, which would be a perfect job for QGraphicsView, but there is no equivalent in Qt Quick. So I had to roll out my own component (which uses Skia under the hood), but that was quite painful. Since Qt 6, the Qt Quick scenegraph is rendered with a custom RHI backend (abstracting over Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL and DirectX) which I had a lot of trouble integrating with third party engines (I really wish they had a WebGPU backend).
Comment · 10 months ago
How do you enforce licensing? Did you build your own solution?
Comment · 10 months ago
QML is a great language to make GUIs. A few years ago I tried XAML, and it honestly kind of sucked in comparison (the verbosity alone made it painful to work with). I haven't tried Slint UI, but supposedly their DSL is even better since it fully compiles to native Rust code.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have completely disabled the history feature, so when I navigate to the homepage there's no "recommended" content. I rely on search exclusively to find what I need. Also I don't have the YouTube app installed, if I need it I just use the browser. This helps minimising the distractions a lot.
As for content, it depends what you're looking for. For me, I'm mostly into maths and physics and there are so many channels and lecture series that were immensely helpful. For example, I recently went through this playlist on Lie Groups [0].
[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN_4R2IuNuuRgJb00X2J53Iq9...
Comment · 1 year ago
What would you replace YouTube with? To my its educational value is unmatched. I owe so much of my learning to it.
Comment · 1 year ago
The vast majority of FLOSS projects are underfunded and we have far more cases of projects that had to shutdown because they lacked funding than projects that were successfully able to fund themselves.
Survivor bias backed examples are not a good argument.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very interesting experiment. I've been working on a handwriting application [0] for the past couple of years and incorporating the ability to take a picture to convert it into digital ink would be really nice.
Comment · 2 years ago
I see, but that's also possible with CMake right? You can use ccache or sccache via -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache/sccache.
Comment · 2 years ago
How does Bazel help reduce build times?