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It's all about the nostalgia. Dig up your old music archive and listen to it with some classic WinAmp skins. It's free and Open Source.

Ghostty is a great terminal app. I've been using it a lot over the past few years. When I started using Claude Code the tabs were not enough and so I looked for a multiplexer. I did not like tmux and other apps needed better UX design. So I made Batty using the Ghostty library and I think you'll enjoy using it. It has themes, keyboard shortcuts for everything, drag & drop to move window panes and fast navigation as well as notifications for terminal BELs.

Perl 6 was supposed to be an upgrade but it kept changing. I lost interest and know I will never use it. And if it is a totally different language why is it called Perl?

Perl was the language that I used many years ago but I moved on. Perl 6 was announced in 2000 and took over 10 years to see a release and by then most developers moved on like I did. When a language takes that long between releases there's clearly a lack of enthusiasm and support for the language. And touting market share? That is a pointless argument. You should be working with multiple languages and move past these silly blog posts.

FreeBSD is plenty fast. I expect Digital Ocean simply needs to work out some kinks. It will be fast soon enough.

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I love that. From 1983 no less. It is basically the same sort of rant/argument you hear today. I will be sharing it with the undergrads I know.

@Animats, this is very true. Many only want to use languages which are considered easy. Ruby and Swift are examples of the easier languages which allow developers to avoid issues like memory allocation bugs. I do find that the side effect of using simple languages, relying heavily on frameworks and easy to use dependencies leads to complex applications which the developer does not really understand. The extreme example is a WordPress site which is slow or buggy and the "developer" who put it together does not know why much less appreciate what is going on in the MySQL database. I wonder how many developers are even capable of doing this low level work in relation to the total number of people who call themselves developers.

Is it possible or does it make sense for GCC and LLVM to work together? Or does the licensing make that impossible?

Agreed. Click bait.

Get off my lawn!