Not trying to be pessimistic here, but I feel like the author is being a bit loaded with the marketing text. There's many pieces of TUI software that do this exact same thing with "color and clarity" and the same fuzzy search, etc.

This repository here has a pretty exhaustive list of these softwares: https://github.com/indigane/git-graph-drawing

Anyway, congratulations to the author for actually releasing their work.

Often when people write something like this, they haven't really looked for alternatives. It reminds me a bit of the rifle creed: "There are many like it, but this one is mine."

Oh that's a very valuable link, thank you!

I am a die-hard advocate of the Phalcon approach to this problem, which is to deliver the framework as a PHP extension. It requires slightly more admin experience to get it setup, but boy is it fast!

It would have been more honest to add (in Rust) to the title.

say the line, genejak

Ok, but can we keep the ads off HN? :)

I know a couple of people that went out of their way to have the yen backslash on their PC. It certainly is charming in a way. Kind of like how email addresses used to be written like:

[email protected]

For anyone that doesn't know, the ! is for UUCP routing.

And is known as a Bang Path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path

I remember using bang paths to send myself email via several different networks. I felt like such a Hackerman.

I share some similar sentiments with the author and I developed a personal note-taking system which has automatic linking based on the collocational word. You can think of it as sort of like an inverted mind mapping software.

link: https://github.com/Tanami/maja

I think a shortcoming of my software and other people’s note-taking software is poor integration of time.. if I could modify my system so I could in effect make some commentary of the changes in the word files I think that would be a much more productive process than simply being able to visualise the changes as a static thing.

> what is more boring than Rails?

modern PHP? I would contend the OP is still a hipster, but at least he's pointing out that fashionable programming is really toxic for the industry as a whole. Boring technology is good because the ordinary, standard thing is meant to be exactly that, ordinary and standard. Leave the breaking changes, feature churn, evangelising, endlessly-revised howto articles, missing/outdated documentation, etc. where it belongs -- in the "innovative" software.

Bold of you to assume missing/outdated documentation is reserved for novel stuff.

the symbols compose in both directions and are aware of tacit parameters, so I don't really think your summary is even remotely correct

By "compose in both directions" you mean like arithmetic operators like + and * ? No doubt it is useful to have built-in operators for array operations if you have to do a lot of array operations.

>militant commitment to stupidity

Indeed, I would say that even now the extant textboard and irc users are still attempting to push the boundaries of sophisticated stupidity and they have become experts at it.