Not in my experience. Granted that was mostly Reddit, but I often read entire threads about this, with almost nobody coming up with reasonable criticism.

I guess that was different on moderated bug trackers and so on?

topgrade

*paru

Oh I’m sure there was valid critique, but at the time it was completely hidden under a pile of made-up conspiracy bullshit about red hat being the devil or so, or plain wrong assertions like “it’s monolithic” or “it forces you to use binary logging”.

If the debate would have been about technical merits, maybe one of the other init systems would have won by being slightly better, but systemd’s detractors prevented that really well by making the public “debate” a compete farce.

Wayland has to overcome more real problems than systemd (because X11 was a giant monolith of compatibility hacks that everybody used, as opposed to a hundred piles of messy shell scripts that was SYSV init). But it has no alternatives that could possibly have more technical merit; I can’t even remember the thing Ubuntu announced for a hot minute.

Maybe also some undead refugees from the “systemd hate” hill or something.

Exactly. I’ve seen so much data destroyed silently deep in some bioinformatics pipeline due to this that I’ve just become an anti CSV advocate.

Use literally anything else that doesn’t need out of band “I’m using this dialect” information that has to match to prevent data loss.

No:

• CSV isn’t good for anything unless you exactly specify the dialect. CSV is unstandardized, so you can’t parse arbitrary CSV files correctly.
• you don’t have to serialize tables to JSON in the “list of named records” format

Just user Zarr or so for array data. A table with more than 200 rows isn’t ”human readable” anyway.

*international

I literally got banned from the “awfulsystems” Lemmy instance for suggesting that Firefox isn’t horrible. No exaggeration, there was nothing else to my comment than a polite suggestion that Firefox is pretty good actually.

If that ban isn’t driven by hate, I don’t want to see how real hate looks like.

This shows how unhinged the whole recent hate on Firefox is. Turning off GenAI is literally one single setting AND Mozilla is doing things infinitely better than others (e.g. the translation feature is completely local, and having a chatbot in the sidebar is opt-in)

I like the heading styles! The tildes are unusual but the reasoning is sound!

I think the “controversy” is just tribalism. I’ve never once witnessed a case of any of the negative adjectives thrown at the Rust community. They’ve always taken exceedingly fair and good-faith approaches to discussing any critique of the language.

Their snark is reserved for the weird “anti-woke” crowd that hates Rust for some reason.

I just use nushell’s builtins instead of wrangling with IFS and bash idiosyncrasies. It’s been years since I’ve corrupted data by parsing text wrong.

But even if someone doesn’t want that: apart from using it in legacy scripts, grep is just a strictly less useful ripgrep these days, no?

My people!

Mu. Your question reveals that you didn’t read the article. Try doing that, then you know which failed assumption led to your question making no sense.

I’d love that. On Reddit, I used to see dozens of upvoted comments by people who only read and believed the headline, all appearing before the first comment written by someone who had read the actual article.

What would that be for? It’s hard to search the internet for.

I think I remember from my Ubuntu days that I used it to switch JREs? Arch has something for that!

That or both wrong and an asshole. I was trying to be charitable.

I think you’re confused. It’s really easy to use. You have to learn 3–4 command line flags instead of subcommands, but that’s all that separates it from others in usage patterns.

The founders died from things they were for: uncontrolled gun access and unvaccinated exposure to viruses.

Conservatives are anti-abortion, so a karmic death from that would be dying before or at childbirth because of being unable to abort.

But of course that doesn’t pan out since rich conservatives always have access to abortion. The rules are for everyone else, not for them.