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by suckmore 1623 days ago
It's interesting to see where support for certain ideologies intersect. Suckless philosophy seems to be rooted in a disgust for "complex, error-prone and slow software", and they seem to have conservative tendencies towards new software tools/practices. Applying those ideas to multiculturalism could land you pretty near Nazism.

What's interesting is I was actually drawn to suckless several years ago, and used dwm for a while. At the time, my work had me maintaining a disturbingly bug-ridden codebase, and it gave me a visceral disgust for bad code. Suckless was really compelling. They seemed to hate all the things I hated, and promised a solution.

Eventually I changed jobs, grew out of it, and found more interesting solutions. Oh well, at least it wasn't a bout of National Socialism.