Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users

That’s not a universal behavior though. There’s so many utilities and simpler apps made by indie developers or smaller companies that don’t care about this.

Seems like it allows self hosting as well. It seems to have more stuff indeed.

It isn’t a native UI, but the effort made to look native on each platform must be appreciated.

This is very useful. I think I’ll stick with it.

As much as I do like programming in Java, you have a good point.

Or anything that downloads code from an untrusted source…

Don’t any linux DE have something like a shortcuts app?

I’ve had a surgery last Thursday, so now that I can’t do anything besides sitting and laying for the next two weeks, I’ve started reading and implementing the Crafting Interpreters book. Hopefully it’ll give me a good base for future projects.

Not having a standard library is what hindered JavaScript, mostly because of its origin as a browser language. The dev environment is already bad with many competing options that don’t always play nice together, now imagine that sort of problem even for the basic libraries.

Python quite often have more than one library to do the same thing, but they’re often extra niceties.

Although I already agreed to it from a users’ perspective (the more protectionist, the worse user experience), this article is very thought provoking.

Unless they play the Twitter/X card and only allow seeing Reddit if you’re logged in and limit the amount of requests one account can make…

This story got me sad. But also, the guy should know better as not to dedicate all of his time on that. This article talk a bit about this issue.