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The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by Huh1337 »

aliqot wrote: post #8
trashburger wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feature creep kinda defines the project. It's not a bug, it's a feature. :^)

while endearing, it does endanger the trajectory of the main feature. 'how many paid FT devs are being added per feature' is what should be asked. People asking "Is it fun" are missing the point. Don't 'fun' yourself into a job under terms you didn't get to negotiate, state your requirements and adjust your work funnel accordingly. I've witnessed a lot of 'fun' projects manifest themselves into serious projects that…

The only question that should be asked is "is this fun?"

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by nurbel »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4

Fantastic progress. My only concern is looking at it... I can't help but worry slightly about feature creep. We went from an OS, to an OS + Web Browser, to an OS + Web Browser + Programming Language. Next year it might add an Office Suite at this rate. Edit: I don't mean this as a bad thing, just that it would be a shame to get so large that everything becomes half-baked and overwhelming to finish.

Well, there's been a spreadsheet app for a while :^)

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by bombcar »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4

Fantastic progress. My only concern is looking at it... I can't help but worry slightly about feature creep. We went from an OS, to an OS + Web Browser, to an OS + Web Browser + Programming Language. Next year it might add an Office Suite at this rate. Edit: I don't mean this as a bad thing, just that it would be a shame to get so large that everything becomes half-baked and overwhelming to finish.

An OS without a web browser is hardly an OS anymore; Microsoft won on that regard (credit to Bill for recognizing that).

But in general if you have something like this, it's often better to let it go where it wanders, even if it never attains the success of Linux, etc. Forcing a restricted scope often leads to burnout which kills it even faster.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by rvense »

breckinloggins wrote: post #15

Some of the comments demonstrate that there are a lot of people here who have never encountered programming in an artistic context before. That is a sad (though understandable) state of affairs.

Well, our prophet pg did write somewhere that the reason to join a startup was to get rich. These people aren't coding for the lambos? Seems immoral to me /s

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by esprehn »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4

Fantastic progress. My only concern is looking at it... I can't help but worry slightly about feature creep. We went from an OS, to an OS + Web Browser, to an OS + Web Browser + Programming Language. Next year it might add an Office Suite at this rate. Edit: I don't mean this as a bad thing, just that it would be a shame to get so large that everything becomes half-baked and overwhelming to finish.

You missed GML, the compile time markup language for the UI:

https://man.serenityos.org/man5/GML-Introduction.html

Ex.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/...

In general the scope creep is because Kling and co are all about fun and code beauty. And to their credit, the code is beautiful. :)

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by cies »

cies wrote: post #16
phendrenad2 wrote: post #3

Is this ever getting GPU acceleration?

Not sure why downvoted... I searched Github for you and found this: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/... See also LigGPU and LibSoftGPU in the same folder.

See this also from the birthday announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yLESYN4_5w

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