Oct 8, 2026, 9:58 AMWe have clearly advanced to the next step in the "writing an app for Linux (and abandoning it after 6-12 months)" pipeline. It goes:
To do list → music player → yt-dlp wrapper → Minecraft launcher → chat client → text editor → window manager → mail user agent → …
@ebassi Honestly, I wouldn't really mind if most of these were kept to people themselves. GitHub used to be filled with abandoned calculator-projects and notepad projects.
Used to be a way for new people to start getting into development, and show to their first employer that they know how to code and how to use version control.
The latter benefits disappear in the age of LLM's. But slop apps existing as personal toy is not a big issue. Them being pushed everywhere to real users is.
@sstendahl @ebassi I think they can even be fine for distribution in some cases, like programs that are basically done after writing. E.g. extracting data from some device that uses a proprietary protocol.