Solid choice. Did that on DOS for a few years at the beginning of my career.
I’ve just gotten spoiled to things like std::vector too much. Hard to overestimate how big a difference in your style having containers that track their own length makes.
I feel naked in C now, but it’s still solid and easy to follow.
Dart will disappoint you, and C++ will continue to run the world.
Language I dislike: Rust
Language I begrudgingly respect: OCaml
Language I think is overrated: Anything that had come into direct contact with ECMAScript.
Language I think is underrated: Zig. Agree.
Language I like: Object PASCAL
Language I love: C#
Language I dream of writing in: I don’t anymore. All my dreams died when ECMAScript took over.
I’ll add one:
Language I have to use the most: C++
#programming #coding nostr:note1tndpker024m2p7kun0q534hswr9n8kyvhn0e46sk9f8w58cfempq7grvf9
That’s going to be a great feature, and DeepL has some great translations! I look forward to it!
I totally agree with your final assessment. I believe the road to a sovereign Damus will be paved with several streams of revenue (donors, subs, merch, purple) that could in aggregate support it.
I’m reminded of streamers.
That reminds me. I was going to suggest to Will he hosts some coding streams working on Damus. People like to zap dev streams. 😃
You’re awesome for what you do.
I could never scale it to take care of everyone. I leave it up for anyone who needs something to test against, or who just needs something “good enough” and can’t spend the money, etc.
I’ve used Mazin and Katie’s service and can confirm it is excellent and they have done a lot to make it efficient. The way it was described to me it’s even better for the environment.
People like y’all are the heroes of Nostr. I just press buttons and rent server space to let people try awesome open source creations. ❤️❤️❤️
I appreciate your post.
I think users funding development solves a great deal of this concern. Especially if a lot of the income cycles monthly. If developers aren’t serving the needs of their users, then they will see that funding dry up.
I’ve also had direct interactions with the entire team a few times. I’ve attended a dev call, submitted a very badly done patch, and reported bugs a few times to the team. During that process, I’ve found each and every one of them to be open, responsive, professional, patient, and kind. I know not everyone has had the opportunity to have that experience, so I thought id share mine with you as some anecdotal evidence that this is a good team trying to steward what they’ve been given in as good a way as they can.
There are very few projects or teams that I give blanket endorsements to like this (indeed, I am one of the angry, critical, kermudgeonly purple cats) but team #damus has my support.
I am not terribly worried about changes in the future, because while Damus is the flagship on iOS right now, we have alternatives if things go bad (and those apps are *good*) and Damus is open source under a permissive license. If I donate money and find out later I no longer support the decisions made by the team, I can move or fork. I consider supporting app developers of FOSS apps for Nostr very low risk because I always have access to the code I helped fund.
As far as running out of money, Damus, Inc is doing a lot more than they started out doing. There are two clients (at least) in devlopment, two developers being paid, travel, and tons of other code Will contributes to the whole community. I follow him on GitHub - I see the repos going up and commits happening.
Again, a lot of this is based on experiences I know non-devs may not have had the opportunity to have with the team, so I thought id share.
If I missed your point, or if I didn’t touch on anything, let me know. It’s late where I am. 😵💫
Hey nostr:npub1wtuh24gpuxjyvnmjwlvxzg8k0elhasagfmmgz0x8vp4ltcy8ples54e7js , what's happening ? What would you say are the biggest costs associated with a project like Damus, speaking as someone that knows nothing about this sort of thing ?
The wages of the developers is usually one of the biggest costs in this business.
Just adding to your comment: There are a long list of people working on Damus, of which I believe Will and Daniel are full time. That’s a lot of work to fund all by itself.
And yes, Damus relay undoubtedly costs some decent $$ with the volume of posts going through it.
I would call a few dentists in your area and price a few services like cleanings, fillings, and crowns. Then compare the cost of a cleaning and a crown without insurance to the price of your premium over a year. If the premium is close to or higher, id pass.
Most dental insurances have such low annual limits that it will not cover a significant portion of surgeries anyways. My major client for example, has insurance capped at $2k/yr.
Step 2 - insert employee into vat of goo and harness their body heat as energy.
Stop posting lewds sir. I got a nerd boner when I opened this post.
I had this mental image of Dimi looking around him at the mountains of gear, sighing, and saying to himself, “He doesn’t mean that…”
🤣😂
This would be a great topic. 💯
I would love to do something together on that. That’s something I believe we do share a lot of common ground on.
on the other hand, this is what capitalists are doing to open source software..... opensource software is literally libertarian-communism.
https://developersalliance.org/open-source-liability-is-coming/
I believe that’s mostly a GPL/Stallman thing
Did you have uninsured motorist coverage?
You may have already answered that, if so, I’m sorry.
