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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 forgotpwd16 »

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.

For many people a web browser and an office suite is all they use a computer for. If anything an office suite should be expected.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

seti0Cha wrote: post #46

> The original Jakt prototype was written in Rust by myself and JT over a couple of weeks before we made it public. I wrote a post introducing Jakt and the motivations behind it. And JT made a video about the creation of Jakt as well. The Rust-based compiler is now long-gone, and Jakt is fully self-hosted with the Jakt compiler being written in Jakt itself. It's always humbling for me to read updates from SerenityOS…

This is good for Jakt but why another language?

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by akling »

Huh1337 wrote: post #49
bee_rider wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does the money for this project come from? I kinda wonder if "streamer who develops code" could be a viable open source business model, haha.

Sponsorship via Github is the primary stream AFAIK

That's right, as of May 2021 I'm working on SerenityOS full time, supported by donations. :)

I posted this about it at the time: https://awesomekling.github.io/I-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-Ser...

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by akling »

emptyparadise wrote: post #9

I want to become powerful enough to contribute to SerenityOS.

You are already powerful enough! Some of our most active developers today didn't even know C++ when they started. If you're interested, look for something small that annoys you, and then see if you can't figure out enough of the code to fix it. :^)

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by openthc »

simonh wrote: post #47
djbusby wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html And here: http://www.paulgraham.com/richnow.html First DDG results for "Paul gramm get rich"

Neither of those are comments here.

Above reads "pg did write somewhere"; the links provided are somewhere.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by wtetzner »

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…

> People asking "Is it fun" are missing the point.

Are they? I thought the whole point of the entire project was fun.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by rvense »

openthc wrote: post #55
simonh wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither of those are comments here.

Above reads "pg did write somewhere"; the links provided are somewhere.

They weren't referring to my dumb joke, but to the claim that there were negative comments. I thought I saw one or two as well, maybe they were deleted.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by rvense »

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #52
seti0Cha wrote: post #46

> The original Jakt prototype was written in Rust by myself and JT over a couple of weeks before we made it public. I wrote a post introducing Jakt and the motivations behind it. And JT made a video about the creation of Jakt as well. The Rust-based compiler is now long-gone, and Jakt is fully self-hosted with the Jakt compiler being written in Jakt itself. It's always humbling for me to read updates from SerenityOS…

This is good for Jakt but why another language?

Why another OS? Why does anyone ever do anything?
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