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Finally it's official. I think it's a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .
Edit: ... oh, I didn't realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: https://github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories
Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he's doing now
Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/
- First edit 3 years ago:
Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas. - Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with:
On hiatus. - Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with:
Have taken up farming.
English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming.", but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don't interpret such a situation, but it doesn't look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.
English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming."
It means they aren't developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead
Stardew update hitting the dev world hard
Hmm, maybe it really means it literally. I mean it would not surprise me if the person really started or taken over by farming and giving up programming. Be it having too much pressure from all sites, for writing software that many people use. Or be it financial. Who knows. I wish him best luck.
It’s not unheard of in folks who are in software dev because they love the repetition and routine. Farming is pretty similar to programming a computer, just with tons more manual labor.
So true, I'm still a student, but taking care of my plants daily is relaxing and repetitive, also some problem solving when there are plagues lol
You are probably right that it isn't literal. In IT I often hear "Goat farming" as meaning getting out of IT.
Impressive, fastfetch even displays the battery%.
Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.
Where's the new rust version?
https://crates.io/search?q=neofetch brings up 21 versions to choose from (21 are actual neofetch clones). There is also a library to help you write even more of them.
Farming what though?
Lead
Better than bitcoin I suppose
go get FastFetch
Why would this little bash script that does nothing extraordinary need constant updates? Some pieces of software might just be complete as they are.
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