I was blown away when I discovered xv in the early 90's. Coming from Deluxe Paint and Photon Paint, I was very impressed.
John Bradley, author of xv, has died
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Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#32Sometimes you see credits and say "Oh, wow, I didn't know that they were involved with that!?"
For John Bradley, it is xv and xcalc.
For Hisham Muhammad it is htop and LuaRocks.
And for Jason Donenfeld it is wireguard and cgit.
Perhaps some of you have other examples.
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#33I made the massive mistake of scrolling down - something vile and worse than X.
Link has since been replaced and I didn't catch the gab link, but yikes, the new site is also filled with conspiracy peddling [1] and, even worse, blatant Russia apologetism [2].
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#34I am confused why this goes to a tribute page to a musician when everyone is talking about a software developer?
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#35Sometimes you see credits and say "Oh, wow, I didn't know that they were involved with that!?" For John Bradley, it is xv and xcalc. For Hisham Muhammad it is htop and LuaRocks. And for Jason Donenfeld it is wireguard and cgit. Perhaps some of you have other examples.
> Perhaps some of you have other examples.
The entirety of the works of Fabrice Bellard. QEMU and FFmpeg are the most well-known ones, but there's also a full blown x86 emulator fully and exclusively written in native JavaScript, a greenfield image compression format, a JS engine and probably a dozen other things I only randomly stumble upon and think "oh, wtf, another Fabrice Bellard thing?".
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#36I am confused why this goes to a tribute page to a musician when everyone is talking about a software developer?
Most people are more than one person.
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#37Sometimes you see credits and say "Oh, wow, I didn't know that they were involved with that!?" For John Bradley, it is xv and xcalc. For Hisham Muhammad it is htop and LuaRocks. And for Jason Donenfeld it is wireguard and cgit. Perhaps some of you have other examples.
> Perhaps some of you have other examples. The entirety of the works of Fabrice Bellard. QEMU and FFmpeg are the most well-known ones, but there's also a full blown x86 emulator fully and exclusively written in native JavaScript, a greenfield image compression format, a JS engine and probably a dozen other things I only randomly stumble upon and think "oh, wtf, another Fabrice Bellard thing?".
I can't even imagine being able to think like he can.
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#38I am confused why this goes to a tribute page to a musician when everyone is talking about a software developer?
Originally I posted a link to a gab article that extensively discussed the software developer side of John as well as the musician side, but it has been decided to replace it with a link that only mentions the musician side.
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#39xv was fast, stable, had a good interface, and useful far beyond the normal lifespan of such a piece of software. Used it all the time in the early 90s.
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#40I really liked the widget set (custom made for the program) that xv used. In the 1990s it looked far more "professional" than most GUI apps on Linux/Unix in general.
Even though I hadn't thought about xv in decades, as soon as I read the headline, the image of those 3d buttons with the crisp outlines resurfaced from my memory.