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> Apparently we need to write more highlight blog posts and submit them here b/c people don't seem to know about this stuff 100% you do. I find the term a bit odd, but I've been a "Linux professional" for coming up on 30 years now and I've never even heard of this stuff before. There is _so much_ in the Linux world that is just badly explained, or not explained, and it's very hard to find cogent explanations. Trying to find them, summarise them, and in some cases, just write them myself is a large part of my job... And it's a huge field. One of the reasons some things dominate the headlines is that the creators spend a significant amount of time and effort on outreach. On just talking about what they are doing, why. That's why there are tonnes of stories about GNOME, KDE, systemd, Flatpak, Snap, Btrfs, ZFS, etc. They talk. They explain. It's also why there are next to none about Nix, Guix, Spack, and legions of others. They don't. To pick a trivially small example: Nix talks about being declarative, but it doesn't explain what "declarative" means. And it mentions "purely functional" but it doesn't explain that either. Those things right there are worth about 1000-2000 words of explanation per word. Omit that, and the original message becomes worthless, because it becomes insiders-only. As it happens through decades of reading about Lisp and things, I more or less get it, but not well, and I struggle to explain it. |