Samourai wallet has been on HN several times, but this interview with the creator just before he goes to prison for writing open source code is very interesting.
Please, no. Emacs could use some interface/toolkit update, I don't deny that. And I like IDE features. I use tree-sitter, LSPs, copilot.el, copilot-chat.el, and others all day, every day.
But don't force me to turn off treemacs, and minimap like I have to do in VSCode all the time just because some useless, space-wasting eye-candy is trendy.
The Borland Turbos had a much bigger market impact, but I was blown away by the Zortech C++ IDE in 1988. I don't remember why any more, but I was very dismissive of other TUI IDEs of the day after using Zortech. Even in the early 1990's when I was professionally using PWB (Programmer's Waste Basket) I still felt Zortech's IDE was superior.
As long as any old apk can be installed over ADB, f-droid just needs to release a desktop app, and I'm gtg. Yeah, it's a little inconvenient, and hopefully just a stopgap until Linux phones are viable, but still better than Apple.
It means users without a PC won't have this possibility. You will not be able to do squat if you are mobile-only. Maybe not a major change for us here but a dealbreaker for the majority.
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