From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com>,
Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>
Cc: Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution
<guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:20:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rgzgcdx.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dfacdc4d261507fc25735e5e4bde388dff2982c@hey.com>
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Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com> writes:
> On November 11, 2020, Jan Wielkiewicz
> <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> wrote:
>> [web browsers are] a really poorly designed copy of
>> operating systems and its utilities.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I just don't understand why in the web browser.
>> I'll try it.
>
> The web browser is the primary operating environment for a lot of
> people. Just as Emacs users built web browsers, terminal emulators, and
> mail clients on the Emacs platform, the web platform also has all those
> things (including various elaborate in-browser code editors.) So I
> understand this as having the exact same genesis as the Guix interface
> in Emacs: people would like to manage their operating system using the
> interface they spend most of their time in, and for Nyxt power users
> that would be their browser. I'm not at all interested in managing my
> Guix packages using Nyxt, which is highly correlated to my not being a
> Nyxt power user.
Exactly :)
To add to what Ryan said, Nyxt has a interesting design feature: it does
not need to depend on a web browser! Nyxt is rather a
"Common Lisp interactive framework" and it would be perfectly possible
to implement a textual interface à-la Emacs. Of course, web page
rendering would be much more limited though.
I'd like to work on a pure GTK (or <insert-your-fav-toolkit-here>)
version of Nyxt at some point.
--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-11 14:41 Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :) Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-11 14:42 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-11 18:50 ` Bengt Richter
2020-11-12 9:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-11 17:21 ` Jan Wielkiewicz
2020-11-11 18:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-11 21:56 ` Jan Wielkiewicz
2020-11-11 22:08 ` Ryan Prior
2020-11-12 9:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-11-12 16:06 ` Jan Wielkiewicz
2020-11-12 16:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-12 20:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-11-13 8:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-12 8:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-11-12 16:00 ` Jan Wielkiewicz
2020-11-12 17:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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