This is nonsense. Old software was not fast. Computers used to take minutes to start up. That’s not an exaggeration. MS Word could easily take 30 seconds to open.
Obviously if you run it on modern hardware it’s going to be lightning fast, but not because the authors cared more about performance and efficiency than we do now.
Happy twelfth birthday!
That’s just nonsense. There are plenty of competent nice people working there. You can say that about leadership if you like.
It’s going to have terrible UX, a complete pain to build, the contribution process is going to be some git send-email mailing list nonsense, it’s going to expect you to have read the manual (probably in info just to be difficult) cover to cover before you even consider using it.
But on the other hand it probably has at least decent documentation, it probably works reasonably well, and there’s zero chance of rug pulls, closed source add-ons, etc.
Overall I would say it has negative connotations. If you said “check out this package manager, Fooly”, I’d think “ok might be good, might not”. If you said “check out this package manager, GNU Fooly”, I would say hell no. It’ll be awful.
It’s the software equivalent of books that have “how to read this book” sections.
Ah you’re expecting users to browse with no JS enabled. Does Radicle’s web interface actually require JS anyway? And either way that’s no reason to pick C over Typescript.
Cradicle’s web interface improves security by keeping all the complex functionality in the HTML server and serving pure scriptless HTML to web browsers instead.
That isn’t really any more secure.
I hear it allows more control over compiler behavior
Not in a good way - more like a “oh good what compiler flags do I need to mess with to make this code work?” way 😄
there should be radicle apps in multiple coding languages, like there are BitTorrent apps in multiple coding languages.
Reasonable. C is still a poor choice though.
Is Tor really “straightforward”? It sounds anything but.
Also C? In 2026? Radicle seems to be written mostly in Rust, with Typescript for the web interface. Why on earth would you want to downgrade to C?
It’s an alpha release.
You really think they’re going to revisit this? That’s not really how software development works.
It’s an alpha release.
I was talking about Flatpak.
It’s as easy as pie too; they show up right there on the boot menu: <screenshot of KDE followed by apparently random numbers>
I really don’t understand why people have this little awareness of usability. Show the freaking date normally! At least add hyphens.
We tried Dolphin and Konsole as Flatpaks for a while, but the user experience was just terrible.
Yeah I’m fairly sympathetic to Flatpak. It’s way closer to how software should be installed by users. But I have yet to actually use it successfully. Is it really ready?
They’re not lying, they’re exaggerating. Obviously coding isn’t solved but I don’t think the fact that that is an exaggeration is going to save our jobs from becoming agent wranglers sooner or later.
I’m not happy about it but I’m not going to stick my head in the sand and pretend it isn’t happening either.