koshersalt's comments

On: Ruby 4.0.0

[koshersalt]

That’s cool if you can, but the majority of business desktops/laptops runs Windows. Hard to gain enterprise traction when it’s hard to run tools on your local machine

[cwyers → koshersalt]

Just use WSL2 and Docker Desktop. VS Code has DevContainer support so you can standardize on a Docker image for your project.

On: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

[koshersalt]

Vscode is free, which is a huge positive for it. For lots of places it can be hard to get budget for dev tools. A lot of it can depend on your industry or region

On: Ruby 3.4.0

[koshersalt]

I think this is a major reason Ruby had trouble taking off compared to Python. Most desktops were Windows, especially for businesses.

[liprais → koshersalt]

typical hn comments,ignoring elephant in the room.

On: Show HN: Crystaldoc.info – Crystal Shards API Documentation Hosting

[koshersalt]

The windows support is a killer, but I think they’ve been working to improve it. 95% of workstations at my office are Windows, so there’s that’s a huge missing market share.

I still say that the initial lack of good windows support by Ruby was a major reason that Python “won”.

[debaserab2 → koshersalt]

Yeah, there's a GH issue thread here that I keep an eye on: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430

I figure whenever windows support lands will be a good time to give it a shot again.

On: Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration

[koshersalt]

Usually it’s meant to prevent kids from changing fonts to make a shorter paper fit the page length requirements.

[darkwater → koshersalt]

Ok, got it! Then it's actually clever and basically prevents what I was doing as a 7th grade back in the 80's, increasing my handwriting size to fit less words in the same space when writing essays...

On: Inkscape 1.2 released

[koshersalt]

I don’t think IMing a link is the main competition so much as “is there an companion app”

For the hobbyist/small business though these regular desktop tools are still a godsend

On: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

[koshersalt]

I tried using it a few years ago to find new stuff to use and was turned off by the amount of meaningless, buzzword laden vaporware. I also didn’t like the weird long comment chains between the product’s founder/cofounders/CTO in an effort to make it look like the page was more active or something. It all felt shallow and like a shinier version of cork board of business cards by the Lowes bathroom

On: WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

[koshersalt]

Also, a quick shoutout for Chocolatey which I use for making embedded packages for managing servers. https://chocolatey.org/

Scoop seems awesome too, just doesn’t fit my particular needs

On: MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies

[koshersalt]

At our local theaters it now seems like the older generation can’t put away their cell phones either.

On: Microsoft cURLs too

[koshersalt]

Have you tried chocolatey? I’ve really enjoyed using it

[kafkamind → koshersalt]

MSYS2 now comes with pacman! it's great.