cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • @Spectacle8011A
    1•11 months ago

    Nice to hear you’ve had a good experience with React Native! I like the idea of using native components, for both major platforms, with JS (React), meaning I don’t need to learn a new language. Really, there’s no better proposition than that. We’ll see if I can make that my next project…

    Neovim

    I know most people use Neovim for the larger extension ecosystem…I think. But I just use an lf integration plugin and nothing else, haha. Before that, I was using netrw but found it slow. I have some basic tab/line width settings for different programming language in my vimrc but not much else. I must look into extensions one of these days.

    Programming is one of those fields that’s very easy to do on a free operating system (for the most part), though unfortunately not every field is like that yet. I’d be happy even using proprietary software like the Adobe suite on GNU/Linux if it meant I didn’t need to keep macOS and Windows around (though I will express my doubt at this situation changing, ever). One step at a time. I’m just glad I’ve managed to change my personal workflows entirely to free software.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      1•11 months ago

      Eh, learning a new language isn’t an issue, I already use several on a day to day basis (Rust, Python, and Go for BE, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, and Swift for FE), and it’s really not an issue to switch between them.

      The real value to me of React Native is two fold: one codebase for Android and iOS, and I can share code between React Native and React web. We aren’t currently doing a ton of code sharing, but that’s because the mobile app was built to be fairly independent of the web app in feature set, but that’s changing now that the MVP is out and we’re starting to work on more feature parity.

      Neovim… extension

      I only have a handful (like 10?). The most important ones are for:

      • live linting
      • jump to definition in another file
      • syntax highlighting

      That’s about it. My init.lua is pretty basic (<100 lines, probably <50) and is completely hand-crafted, with very few remaps and mostly just indentation settings.

      Some people go nuts, but I just like a mostly vanilla ViM experience with a few developer tools. I used to go crazy with all kinds of features, like file browsing, magic buffer handling, etc, but I found that I rarely needed those fancy bits once I got familiar with ViM tools.

      And yeah, it’s unfortunate that so many industries revolve around a handful of proprietary tools. I know it’s possible to, e.g., make a video game, produce a movie, or design a marketing campaign on Linux, but the tools aren’t available aren’t we m industry standard and often leave a lot to be desired. I’m hopeful that as Linux continues to gain marketshare, more of these types of problems will be solved for Linux users, either by FOSS improving or proprietary software vendors supporting Linux.

      • @Spectacle8011A
        1•11 months ago

        Well, I don’t know a single programming language well enough yet 🙂

        It always trips me up when I’m switching between Python and say, Javascript. Python’s syntax is so wildly different to everything else. The main reason I was interested in React Native was having a single codebase, as you say. It would be a real pain to keep two codebases in sync, especially with the haphazard way I write things at the moment…

        Code sharing wasn’t something I’d thought of, but that’s a pretty neat benefit, too.

        vanilla ViM

        I’ve always wanted a really portable Vim setup, so I’ve stuck to the built-in features for a long time. Hell, I used netrw for a year until I got really annoyed by the keybindings and general sluggishness. I’m still new to programming, so I don’t know what IDE features I’m missing! I learned git, Vim, and bash long before I did any real programming, haha. I guess I’m more experienced at system administration. Syntax highlighting would be useful though I know Vim already does some of that for some languages.

        My init.vim is 40 lines. The main thing is setting shortcuts to change the spellchecker from American to British English and back again.

        Technically, Lightworks is a competent video editing tool and it was used for some Hollywood movies like Pulp Fiction. So if you’re willing to learn a different workflow, that is a professional tool that has better support than DaVinci Resolve for GNU/Linux. Nuke, Autodesk Maya, and other VFX/3D tools usually have GNU/Linux versions, but those aren’t prosumer—they are firmly professional, which is why a license costs like $6K a year.

        The major ones that don’t have professional counterparts yet are Photoshop, inDesign, and After Effects (if you can’t get along with Nuke, Natron, or Blackmagic Fusion as a replacement, which I can’t 🙂). I would say Inkscape is a decent replacement for Illustrator, though I don’t do much vector work. It helps that .eps is a really good exchange format. GIMP is slowly getting to the point where I would consider it to have feature parity with Photoshop at an essential level. Namely, non-destructive editing (3.0 is close, and surely 3.2 can’t be that far away). And unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how good of a replacement Scribus is for inDesign, because I need to deal with the .indd format. I’ll need to wait for a web version of that.

        Really, if Adobe supported GNU/Linux, I would be good. I don’t see After Effects ever going to the web or supporting my operating system of choice, unfortunately, but everything else is fair game. I’m of course happy to be proven wrong.