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The Barium Experiment

There’s been a lot of buzz about GUI stuff lately, which made mebriefly reflect on the state of the art and share something I’ve beenworking on as of late.

Myself being a long-time i3 user (having given up on, and seeking refuge from the madness of Gnome), I still could not shield myself from the damage inflicted by “modern” toolkits: I have fought (and lost) trying to keep a sane, sensibly sized, always-on scrollbar on the side of common everyday apps such as the web browser. I created or helped maintain a couple web applications, some of them truly massive and extremely proprietary, with less mainstream technologies… including Common Lisp and Erlang, which opened the door to a new, exciting world: Functional programming! I have more ideas than what could possibly fit into the rest of my lifetime; I have no time to waste on fixing godforsaken deprecation warnings from nowhere (on a compiler that did not exist when I wrote the code in a version of the language now declared obsolete).

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