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by dopidopHN 1610 days ago
The spec of Gemini state that a Gemini web client should be writable as a weekend project for a experienced dev.
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Very impressive that people can write TLS clients in a weekend, on top of building Gemini clients and Gemtext parsers.
I have sincerely not idea. I skipped over any https talks because it was not fun to look at and assumed folks would have a dependency. There is a list of client/server in a bunch of mainstream languages, did those people had to implement TLS? That sounds like work.
Having this as a priority nicely demonstrates how dev-centric and user-ignorant this project is.
Is that so wrong? Must everything we create be for the masses to consume?
It's not wrong, it just demonstrates how super niche it is.
The distinction between devs and users is less sharp when everything is as simple as the Gemini ecosystem. And that is precisely what they want: technology that is resilient and does not (and will never) depend on a caste of specialists and large corporations such as Google, like the web does.