kasran, fourier transfemme @typhlosion@awoo.space

i guess part of my fear is that what we have now (three huge OSes that are user unfriendly in deep and fundamental, albeit different, ways) is too entrenched to ever really change

i guess i'm making it sound like i have all the answers or something but really i'm just thinking out loud, sorry about that

incidentally: when you're using the shell in *nix, you're programming. there's a reason it's called shell scripting. and i think some of the complaints non-technical users have with learning to code can also give some insight into why the shell is often so user-unfriendly for that demographic

if you truly want a "year of linux on the desktop" someday, that's worth thinking about

there's artfulness, and a sense of the arcane, in skillfully manipulating strange tokens to form the incantations that will get your computer to do what you want

but i often think about how much of programming is only intuitive to me because i've been steeped in it for years

i think visual programming is the next step, and i'm excited to see what people are doing in that area

i believe it was @chr@cybre.space who i once saw say something to the effect of "the fact that we're still programming in text shows how far computer science still has to go"

i think about that a lot

im really tired

extra cursed thought: Zork randomizer but only for the maze of twisty passages

cursed thought: Zork randomizer