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the suckless.org devs seem to like posting Nazi dogwhistles (oldbytes.space)

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kinda glad I bounced off of the suckless ecosystem when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nazi nonsense aside,

when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

That's the thing here: It REALLY sucks. Which sucks for a project that calls itself "suckless".

[–] sarchar@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

I dunno. I'll be the odd one out and say that I fuckin love it. I'm a systems programmer though, so maybe that skews my opinion.

I use dwm and st regularly but with this new news, I'm disappointed.