Yes, he fancies himself a modern Stallman and spends that reputation on content-free rants like this, that an increasingly dwindling audience understands and cares about (HN notwithstanding, who largely eats up his posts on authorship). Spending your life hacking on Wayland when the world has pretty conclusively assigned capital to headless Linux use cases does speak for itself, yes.
Divisive pieces like this make that worse and shrink the TAM of desktop Linux even further, so it’s an oddly self-defeating position to have. I’m not sure comparing detractors of software to people who believe thousands of people died in a false flag operation is defensible commentary in any light nor that this community should be giving it an audience.
Which is what, exactly? Giving someone who compares disagreements over software to literal conspiracy theories a platform? The content doesn’t even fit your guidelines for intellectual interest. It’s a hateful, harmful rant with no substantive discussion. It’s literally flame bait, as evidenced by my showing up, but I don’t see you making any moves to remove the post despite it being voted up as much as my comment was. Nope, just “we are trying for something else” when someone doesn’t tow the line.
But you’re right, I’m the problem for responding to a fawning endorsement of the author with a very moderated opposing view. My bad. I’ll do better on the next account.
Of course the article doesn't meet HN's guidelines, but that's no reason to break them yourself. These are two separate issues.
Commenters routinely underestimate the amount of flamebait in their posts by 10x or more—it always feels like the other people are doing worse. No one would objectively describe your posts in this thread as "very moderated".
> Spending your life hacking on Wayland when the world has pretty conclusively assigned capital to headless Linux use cases does speak for itself, yes.
He has worked on projects other than wayland.
Sourcehut is a notable example: A free github alternative that has great e-mail integration. One of the amazing features is that the UI uses no javascript (pure server side python) and is super fast.
Why do you care so much about what someone else decides to spend their time coding on? Man, people criticize the weirdest things sometimes.
I for one greatly appreciate a lot of DeVault's work. Do I think he has the softest way of expressing his opinions? No. Do I need him to in order to appreciate the technical merits of his work? No. I'm not looking for a life partner – I'm looking for excellent software.
Divisive pieces like this make that worse and shrink the TAM of desktop Linux even further, so it’s an oddly self-defeating position to have. I’m not sure comparing detractors of software to people who believe thousands of people died in a false flag operation is defensible commentary in any light nor that this community should be giving it an audience.