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by lol768 163 days ago
This looks very cool, some immediate thoughts though:

- "TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics" - pedantry, but software is an uncountable noun. You cannot have a software.

- It wasn't immediately clear to me from the homepage that it's Windows-only. Appreciate it appears to behave under WINE, but it'd be good to make clearer.
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lioeters 163 days ago
The animation on their website looks nice, I'm curious to try it. But that's a good point about needing WINE wrapper on Linux and Mac. Apparently they're working on a native port.

Installation: Non-Windows systems - https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/wiki/help.Installation

Linux Support - https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/issues/77

Mac - https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl/issues/32

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shwaj 163 days ago
I’ve heard many European non-native English speakers say “a software”, and I see it as a charming reflection of their native languages, where presumably “software” is a countable noun. I think that’s what’s going on here.
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