Sure, I started using (emacs) org-mode about a decade ago after deciding I wanted to get my notes out of Evernote. Obviously I wanted to avoid migrating again in the future, I wanted something as close as possible to plain text that wasn't in a SaaS.
org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:
* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there
* refer to part of an email
* todo and agenda
* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends
* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)
* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.
I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.
as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.
funnily enough it's something I've been working on for my personal dotfile setup but instead unfortunately decided to go with ansible for now despite being a big fan of both nix and nixos. Nix was just a bit too heavy for some of the small lxc containers etc I wanted to setup.
Crystal is a great language that has learned a lot from Ruby. I'm excited to see where it goes. I think one area where it doesn't measure up to Ruby, however, is Windows support, which they've decided to forgo for the 1.0 milestone [0].
That said, I'm excited to pick up Crystal someday. What are some good niches you've found for it?
True, but one of the selling points of Ruby to begin with is runtime metaprogramming. Sure, it should generally be discouraged, but when it's heavily utilized by ecosystems like Rails, it becomes a primary feature that macros do not adequately address.
Are you saying it's a primary feature for Rails or for Ruby? I can't think of an example where it's a primary feature for a user of Rails but I usually avoid it in favour of better tools so I might not know of them. Perhaps you know of some?
Rails leans on meta programming for a lot of its magic (though less so than it used to in early versions). You don’t generally use it as a user of Rails, though.
It does have metaprogramming, only at compile time. Crystal metaprogramming is very advanced as well, you could even create methods dynamically from a JSON file if you wanted to.
> Qt is lovely but the company that controls it is in a bad place financially and it's not clear what will become of Qt if they go under.
this part has always been clear:
"Should The Qt Company discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under the required licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreements stay valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy."
Yep, but a hostile entity that owns Qt can do a lot of damage to Qt by publishing on the last permitted day, and denying community contributions and destroying community governance. I can definitely imagine a hostile corporation like Oracle doing so (and they have form).
org-mode is great tool for emacs as an environment. If the idea of having such a tool so close so tied into how you're working then it's the best tool I know of.
If you just want a markdown-ish outliner you can probably get that workflow elsewhere.
It's a public broadcaster, WE own it. The idea that the government should set the agenda for it either as an organization or via intimidation is insanity.
It should represent the diversity of people that it in itself is there for. It should have diversity of political thought, culture and the ability to report on whatever it can fact check.
>The idea that the government should set the agenda for it either as an organization or via intimidation is insanity.
That's precisely what the government does on sensitive topics. That's why there's no anti-vax and conspiracy theory bs. What "we" want isn't always a good thing for running a country.
> That's precisely what the government does on sensitive topics. That's why there's no anti-vax and conspiracy theory bs. What "we" want isn't always a good thing for running a country.
That is not at all their role. That conspiracy theories are unverified is what makes them theories, that they take a pro-vax stance is based on the data, research and reaching out to experts in the field.
What you're describing is the propaganda arm of a regime, not a media outlet.
I don't argue conspiracy theories or antivax is a good thing. My point is that the people have different interests in news than the gov does.
For or against the scientific arguments, there are some people out there that want to engage in stupidity and resentment. That is undeniable. The gov denies that outlet and you get it online. I'm not here to defend abject stupidity that you get online, merely to point out decision s are in fact being made by the media.
Yet and that's what every country in the west has. Watch the US media deal with NSA wiretapping laws in the 2000s. There are acres of examples of a value structure of stories imposed by governmental interest on gov broadcasters.
I have the same story, and I’m pretty sure the author is undiagnosed as well. If her child has it, it’s almost a certainty that one of the parents has it, and it’s probably her.
org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:
* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there
* refer to part of an email
* todo and agenda
* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends
* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)
* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.
I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.
as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.