> On macOS, Metal support is required.
Is it using MoltenVK?
Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
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Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#32Anyone else concerned by the decidedly negative cast of the comments? Someone shares something interesting and OP gets a barrage of nit-picky commentary; it's quite discouraging.
Unfortunately, that's pretty typical of HN nowadays. High up in the HN rules are "Be kind" and "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work," but I don't know that everyone reads the rules or cares much beyond proving they are better than the submitter :/ not sure how the community can get better about this.
It's probably not as simple as I'm about to make it out to be, but to me, it just seems that positivity is not rewarded nearly as much as negativity. How many people will upvote a Show HN on the new page, opposed to an article about "X is wrong," "X is shutting down," etc.? How many people will upvote a compliment or genuine feedback?
"I hate this too" goes a lot farther than "I like this too."
Maybe I'm on the wrong site if that's what I'm looking for, but I suggest anyone reading this try to boost some of the more positive comments they see.
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#33Gah, please type the names of your projects into the search engine of your choice before polluting everyone's search results with a new project. There are already a few programming projects which go by "rx". I'll boost the one I care about by linking it: http://reactivex.io/
I disagree with the direction of this criticism. Building and shipping is the real victory for anyone with a passion project. To cut them down because of the project name is a cheap critique in my view. Besides, given the extreme signal:noise ratio of codebases that gain notoriety most projects that share a name or acronym will only have a handful of users even aware of both's existence.
Well, it's a mistake. Due diligence, for any new project, requires searching for existing uses of the intended names and deciding whether they are confusing.
It's difficult because it's easy to miss obscure social niches and name variants, and that's why most people make the task easier with an effort to find unique names.
For example, a sloppy google search for "Rx" yields, in search result order:
- two medical abbreviation, for "recipe" (i.e. "take") in medical prescriptions and for radiography: benign but common and used in proper names of pharmacies, labs etc.;
- Radeon RX-something video cards, unlikely to be confused but likely to yield search result noise for something related to videogames;
- some Lexus cars, popular but more harmless;
- iZotope RX 7, a major software entry: professional "audio repair" DAW plugins from a popular company;
- several unimportant random product and company names, including e.g. some Sony headphones, that collectively prove how "Rx" is an inappropriately short name.
A longer and more unique name would clearly be a better choice. But a further web search for "rx pixel" yields an awful lot of medical video card and car results and a frontal collision on Twitter, where dr. Jennifer Hazel goes by "@Rx_Pixel".
Searching for "rx editor" is also interesting:
- a deluge of iZotope RX results (no hope to become more popular, low-resolution image editors are a smaller niche than audio production)
- the highly popular RxJS JavaScript library. It doesn't take a JavaScript expert to figure out that it's highly popular: the home page mentions a conference about it.
This last conflict should be enough to veto the name "Rx", even without more targeted searches (e.g. social media) and less online-visible usages (e.g. in telecommunications as an abbreviation of receiver or reception, paired with "Tx" for transmitter or transmission).
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#34Anyone else concerned by the decidedly negative cast of the comments? Someone shares something interesting and OP gets a barrage of nit-picky commentary; it's quite discouraging.
>Someone shares something interesting and OP gets a barrage of nit-picky commentary
everyone on hn is of the belief about themselves that they're dispassionate (objective) intellectuals and so of course their criticisms aren't in bad faith.
and moderators never address these kinds of comments but do often address comments like yours because they incite "flame wars" (since dispassionate intellectuals can be quite defensive).
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#35Gah, please type the names of your projects into the search engine of your choice before polluting everyone's search results with a new project. There are already a few programming projects which go by "rx". I'll boost the one I care about by linking it: http://reactivex.io/
There's a very little overlap between the purpose and use case of the two projects. There's not that many good, short names. I personally wouldn't worry about naming conflicts with another project, unless it was a similar project in more than a name.
Short names are bad, unless somewhat sheltered from confusion (e.g. brief names of command line tools, which need to be unique only within your PATH environment variable and your installed man pages, not on the web).
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. Yeah, vsync is a latency killer and it's disabled by default in `rx`. What software renderers are not so good at is drawing lots of pixels every frame, so for example panning a view with lots of images open, or zooming in and out of an image that covers the screen. I'd expect these kinds of operations to be slow at high resolution without the help of the GPU. You could probably speed things up with SIMD…
> vsync is a latency killer VSync, if done properly, only adds less than a single frame of latency. That is 17ms tops for 60Hz, which nobody notices unless you are a pro-gamer on an FPS game. Certainly it does not matter for a pixel editor.
This can be easily proven that the extra latency can be noticed by doing a reaction test and recording the screen
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#37Gah, please type the names of your projects into the search engine of your choice before polluting everyone's search results with a new project. There are already a few programming projects which go by "rx". I'll boost the one I care about by linking it: http://reactivex.io/
Getting a "perfect name" is a lost cause. I named a software project 'minion'. It was perfect, we were top on Google, the only other thing with the name was a font.
Then the movie dispicable me came out, then the Minions movie, and now we are off on page 11.
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#38> On macOS, Metal support is required. Is it using MoltenVK?
Nope, uses Metal directly through the gfx-rs backend.
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#39Anyone else concerned by the decidedly negative cast of the comments? Someone shares something interesting and OP gets a barrage of nit-picky commentary; it's quite discouraging.
I agree that the tone could certainly be better. That said, feedback like "why does a pixel editor need a graphics accelerator?" is probably warranted, since it limits the end users without apparent good reason. Perhaps just a better way of phrasing?
Re: Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree with the direction of this criticism. Building and shipping is the real victory for anyone with a passion project. To cut them down because of the project name is a cheap critique in my view. Besides, given the extreme signal:noise ratio of codebases that gain notoriety most projects that share a name or acronym will only have a handful of users even aware of both's existence.
Well, it's a mistake. Due diligence, for any new project, requires searching for existing uses of the intended names and deciding whether they are confusing. It's difficult because it's easy to miss obscure social niches and name variants, and that's why most people make the task easier with an effort to find unique names. For example, a sloppy google search for "Rx" yields, in search result order: - two medical abbr…
Yes, except I like this name, and find it fitting, and no one can stop me. We have different priorities :)