Comment by 🚀 lars_the_bear
@mbays : I'm sure everything you say is true. And yet I'm not sure I believe that (say) Amiga support was part of the founding intention of Gemini. I think it's more likely that @skyjake is right (in a post on Station, as I recall): by making it easy to write clients, everybody would write one, and this would make it even harder to change the protocol.
While there are going to be niche applications, and there's always work to do to fix bugs and so on, if there had been one decent client for Windows, one for MacOS, and one for Windows, that would have satisfied most people's needs for years to come. There never was a need to write a client in a weekend.
Mar 25 · 6 weeks ago
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A paradox — I'm sure that the answer I seek might be found by reading into the archives of the original mailing list, however, I don't have the time for that right now, so I'll have to resort to being wrong in public, surely someone will correct me. So I've been meaning to ask. One of the major stated goals of Gemini is simplicity. A major big idea is to make writing a browser in a high level language easy, and a lot of thought went specifically into making this easy. Another major stated...