I know this article is a few years old but I just came across it today while searching for a nix lsp. I thought it might be an interesting issue to discuss as I don’t think much progress has been made in this space (or maybe there has and I’m living under a rock?).
side-tracking
Out of the 800,000 people each year who committed suicide, on average perhaps more capable than the rest of us, what if a few would have been instrumental in developing fusion power?
I don’t like arguments like this. Especially when it comes from someone in the tech field. It seems to imply that climate change is a technical problem and that some silver bullet solution from a savant will solve it. Meanwhile in the real world, the economic and political system has been blowing all the increasing energy capacity on useless stuff like cryptocurrency and now AI.
Before you complain that this is an old article, read the post body!
Very cool article but mainly because I was bracing for more nonsense about how stripped down apps can help “dopamine fasting” - which like paranoia about antivirus or mugging level threats has completely overtaken many otherwise terrific projects and leads people to do insane things like destroy searching public posts on one’s own website to provide people a security blanket
Instead this gets to one of the core problems with open source. Let’s dig even deeper. Most open source contributors are depressed knowing they serve an industry dominated by imperialists who care nothing for them and will actively warp communities into digital company towns, instigate new forms of bullying and low grade civil conflict, and open source development is basically a coping mechanism that can sometimes serve as a justification to stay in the industry
