It’s going to be a lot smaller since it doesn’t bundle a version of chromium in every build. Instead it uses the systems native web view. This does pose the problem of vendor specific rendering issues… How snappy it feels is down to how the front-end programmed. It can still be a mess of bloated JavaScript 🙂

After you explained it a bit further in another comment it was pretty obvious you didn’t mean cryrocurrencies. I really did latch onto “crypto” as cryptocurrency, unfortunately the case for a lot of people.

Yes, we all know crypto and scalability go hand in hand /s

Great summation of what I’ve been trying to verbalize. Federated reddit seems much more likely to take off because federation is more likely to happen based on the biggest communities from different instances. Neato.

What’s the advantage of running this server side?

Godot can run on fairly low end stuff, just use the opengl based renderer. The official Godot docs are actually pretty dang good nowadays. Join a game jam asap https://godotwildjam.com/ you’ll probably find a team willing to take a newbie. You’ll learn a lot. Good luck!

Totally, pretty much all browsers include a way to simulate network conditions. Chrome also includes a way to simulate CPU slowdown.

Prioritizing developer experience is not the reason we use front-end frameworks. People expect the web to work like a desktop app (no page reloads). The initial request might take a little bit longer, but in the end a well written front-end app will feel faster.

The problem is that people don’t worry about bundle size and cram every library off of npm into their website.

Try out Godot. It uses a really simple language (gdscript), has excellent learning material, and you can make games!

Depends if you want a managed service or not. As stated by others, any Linux vm can do it: Aws ec2, Azure, Digital ocean, etc. Cost won’t spiral because you pay a fixed fee for the vm you choose (can be like 5 dollars a month).

The options that can spiral if for some reason your app started being used a lot. But likely these will be pretty much free:

A lot of cloud platforms have some sort of managed container service. Wrap your app in a docker container and pay per 10K API calls for example.

Another option is to use a managed service that handles the runtime for you (AWS Lambda, Google cloud app engine, etc.) These options should have the option for a dotnet core runtime. They can also be really cheap if your app isn’t used much.

On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.

The CLI and probably other more advanced guis are going to give you the option to:

• bisect: very useful for debugging. Like definitely check it out.
• rebase: excellent for clean commits. I use it all the time to squash commits together
• diff arbitrary branches and commits. Super useful for debugging.
• cherry pick: useful to apply a commit from a different branch or remote
• Apply: I use it to pass around patches for things for testing / debugging.

That’s just off the top of my head and also stuff that you can learn on the job. Good to know it exists though. I still use a “gui” (fugitive for vim) for simple tasks, like staging files 🙂

Sounds like you want to contribute to something for the sake of contributing (hopefully that’s not true). You’re skill is worth something.

Going to spew some jaded bs: Don’t pick a project that makes you sign some bullshit release, pick something that some rando started and released with no intention of monetizing. Volunteer to work on a passion project that you’re also passionate about. Not something that will be used by some 9-5 300k a year tech bro. That’s just my opinion though. “Open source” has been used by big companies to generate free labor (looking at you Adobe, etc).

Off the top of my head, the SignalK project is something I’ve wanted to volunteer for. They make some software that lets marine sensors (depth sounders, Windex, speed paddles, temp sensors, etc.) Communicate in one standard format. They built a web app with node and react as a proof of concept. It could for sure be improved. It’d be neat if it caught on because vendor lock-in is huge in marine hardware / software.

Lua is incredibly easy to embed.

Sad that I had to scroll so far to see Fugitive mentioned. It is so good it should be illegal. But seriously, if you’re a vim user you really should give it a shot. It’s a perfect blend of vim and shell. Also it’s developed by the legendary tpope, that oughta be enough of an argument to try it out.

Github desktop will get you into trouble if you ever try to work with a team. Fine for solo development

This is basically the unix philosophy. Build a bunch of separate apps that can be hooked together (via pipes).