Notices by Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 (mcepl@en.osm.town)

@mgorny

Czech one used to be called ČÚZAK (BTW, collaborates very intensively with the Czech #OpenStreetMap community), but that sounds too rude (no, I will not explain!), so it is ČÚZK now (https://cuzk.gov.cz/).

@soapdog

Exactly: a programming language is either like Python (“batteries included”) or it is like C (“do it yourself”; although there is a large stdlib called libc). The first is good for a general scripting, the second one isn’t. Yes, no sense adding file functions to Lua embedded in WoW, but e.g. Neovim (and any other editor like vis) must develop their own stdlib. Thus, “we don’t like you to use Lua for anything smaller than a project large enough for you to develop your own stdlib”.

@BrodieOnLinux

Well, it is a special (although probably not unique) that it is memory safe without giving in to garbage collection. So, Rust fangirls and fanboys are at least partially right, but partially right is the worst kind of right.

@soapdog

So, if I understand it correctly, TL;DR of the article is “Normal users hate #Lua, because they miss standard library; the feeling is mutual, we hate them as well. Lua should be used only by large (semi-)professional projects, which build they own standard library.” Did I get it right?

(Meanwhile, I have to fight about https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/vis/commit/d19f12337e440 being included into #vis).

@soapdog

If there is one thing I started to really dislike in the last couple of months, it is that everybody (from McDonald’s downwards in terms of sleaziness) started to force me to lie, that I would ever return to that choice later. No, I will never give to Ronald McDonald Charity (for reasons), and I will never change my mind about it! Now I see the similar forcing me to lie in FLOSS projects. Ugh!

RT @pluralistic

> Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is bullshit, and that one is no exception.

Preach it, brother, preach it!

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/