Wow. Honestly, thank you! I had entirely forgot that this wiki even exists. I’ve bookmarked your reply. :-)

Thank you, the subshell idea is a good one!

Ah, I could probably use Perl or something as well. I was hoping awk could do it though. But thank you, I hadn’t heard about pyp before!

You wouldn’t be able to split up expressions like this

Ah, that already answers my original question. A pity!

Sure, but that’s inside a string:

$ printf "This is a   # let's break \
> long line."
This is a   # let's break long line.

awk remains unimpressed:

$ echo "This is a test.
> It has three lines, so I can
> test awk on it." | awk '
> NR>2    # Skip two lines. \
> { print $2 }   # should only print "awk"
> '
is
has
test awk on it.
awk

Wouldn’t the backslash be a part of the comment?

The same is just as true for LaTeX: it’s a great, intuitive language

Curious troff noises

-No spying

depending on the distro

-No ads

depending on the distro

-Can uninstall anything you don’t want

How can you uninstall systemd?

Double Commander is a multi-platform clone of Total Commander. You couldn’t even see the difference after some configuration.

LOL, Model M. Fucking newbies.

Typed on my Model F.

I want a simple desktop with small elements to maximize real estate for windows.

Maybe a tiling (or optionally-tiling) window manager would be a good choice then? No elements! :)

Or try Slackware -CURRENT. Not Debian-based, but quality control is awesome. There even is an apt simulator for it.

Lol, as if we had any money to invest.

Go away.

Wait until you see the Lisp community. But yes, Rust is currently in its “why are there even any other languages lol” phase. Just wait.

Friends don’t let friends use a dark mode.

I understand the reluctance but it feels to me like arguing “we should just stick with COBOL because it works.”

For those depending on COBOL code that does the job and has been doing it just well for a few decades, there are approximately zero good reasons to not stick with it.

Ha, I’ll steal that! “Karen compiler” - quite fitting, to be honest.

Maybe it’s not your profession but a hobby but the point stands.

To be honest, I’ve hardly ever asked myself how I could best please a potential employer with any of my hobbies. But I recognise that you’re probably taking a different approach.

It also expands your employment potential and general usefulness.

I have already mentioned that programming is not everyone’s profession. Not everyone chooses what they do in their unpaid free time primarily based on whether it makes them a more useful person. I think the very phrase ‘my usefulness’ is dangerous.

Are we only worth something as drones?