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The Gemini protocol, a lighter alternative to the web's HTTP (geminiprotocol.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/webrevival@lemm.ee
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The Gemini protocol is brutally simple, which makes it just about too useless for apps, tracking, and commercial purposes. Gemtext, the format for Gemini pages, is very basic; with about half as many features as markdown, it's barely a step above plain text. As a result, Gemini is a small universe of blogs and personal sites.

Its simplicity makes it easy for people to create compatible clients and services for it. It's self-hosting friendly and there are also hosting services, like smol.pub and some pubnixes.

Of course, you'll need to get a Gemini browser or visit a Gemini-to-web proxy to access it.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Did you even read my previous comments? I also mentioned TypeScript. I can probably count on one hand how many lines of non TypeScript JavaScript I’ve written in the past 5 years. That’s only a slight exaggeration. Apologies if I used JS and TS too interchangeably.

lol I’m not on a high horse. JavaScript is the best option for the types of problems I want to solve. Those problems, both professionally and outside of work, are cross-platform front-end development. I’ve also tried Flutter, just to explore the other options out there, but learning Dart feels less useful to me then other languages.

As soon as I have a problem to solve where there is a better language than JavaScript, I’m learning that language. But I live in the real world where the only thing that really matters is the end-user experience. Try explaining to your product manager why you think you should rewrite your entire web app to C++ using Web Assembly. I bet they will laugh.

It’s kinda funny cause this conversation makes me think C++ programmers are obnoxious. Community surrounding language is important. Not just the language.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're mixing up what you need to do and what is a good language. Use javascript if that's the "best" language you know. Have I said otherwise, I think not.

    It also seems your got some beef with your collegue C/C++ developer, take that up with him!

    I have seen webassembly from C++, who knows if that was the best solution, maybe it actually was at that particular moment.

    And if you can solve all your problems in javascript, you do so, good for you. I just think it's a bit ridiculous when people boast that "their" programming language is the "best" one. That "best language" changes all the time, you'll see by yourself.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Literally never did I say JavaScript was the best programming language lol. I have no beef with my C++ colleague. Actually I really love picking his brain about neural networks and other stuff that he does that I don’t work on.

    I also think it’s “ridiculous” when people boast that their programming language is best. All I meant was JavaScript doesn’t deserve as much hate as it gets.

    Listen we can argue about programming languages all day, but what we can all agree on is objectively Vim is the best editor. Only losers navigate VS Code using their mouse 🤮

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