I hate all things MS (Windows, Office, AD, O365, Teams, Entra, InTune, Azure, VSCode, OutBreak, Exchange). But LibreOffice doesn't even begin to cover what I'm forced to use at work. When LibreOffice has a mail server, scheduling (rooms, meetings, people, etc.), device management (hopefully never), and all the things enterprises use it for, try again.
Is LibreOffice all the average home user needs? Absolutely. Enterprise? Not even close, and enterprises would rather license one expensive, shitty bundle than have to cobble together superior solutions from multiple vendors or FLOSS products.
I use open office suites since Sun released one so it's quarter of century now ? Possibly I use it in less then average user mode :)
But:
- why you want your own mail server ? Certainly, email aka SMTP corporate server should be unavailable for [all?] suits.
- scheduling ? Do it really need to be done from Word or Excel and not from... some scheduling app ??
- what you mean by device management ? Sharing stuff among laptops, workstations, projectors ? Such thing, theoretically, belong to office but do not realy belong to documents editors package, it's operating system job. Or some not yet invented app, but for sure not a job for editors package
- Teams ?
- what else is needed for serious enterprise experience ?
But, sure, open office suites are just Office 95 clones, not enterprise packages. Now available via Web interface... Hackers approve.
And LibreOffice is quite ugly and somehow have feel like web page with bad response time. Tables editing is a lot nicer in Emacs/Org mode with Latex export.
GNU Emacs really didn't start until 1984, but I keep thinking it would be interesting to compare Emacs' resource usage to Zed (or Gram). Then I realize I can't be bothered to run either of those long enough to do it.
Compared to VSCode, Eight Meg And Constantly Swapping does sound ridiculously parsimonious in 2026.
> it would be interesting to compare Emacs' resource usage to Zed (or Gram)
The core of GNU Emacs is written in C, and there are GNU-licensed Emacs variants which are entirely written in C. I really doubt anything like a new Zed/Gram fork would perform better than, say, QEmacs.
I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"
docs.wyzer-lang.org doesn't resolve for me, and it's prominently linked from https://wyzer-lang.vercel.app/. Since I'm not familiar with wyzer or perceus, how would one write, say, a doubly linked list in wyzer?
Great. I'm also writing a new language with the same memory management idea (Perceus-style reference counting / ownership). My language [1] is not functional and currently lacks multi-threading and networking, so there are big differences. But I really like the moto "easy to use memory safety without tracing GC".
maybe wait until you have something to share before Show HN? overall your work seems like a cool thing that i’d like to look at in a few months once there’s more substantial education stuff to read about it.
> I was not aware of the antagonism from the Zig .. people to Rust, but it makes absolutely no sense.
Lol, have you ever watch Andrew Kelley speak? I've only seen 3 or 4 talks he's given, but he frequently makes not-so-subtle digs towards Rust. Zig's home page prominently displays "Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge" which sounds horrible to me, but is clearly an anti-rust statement. Competition is good, and Rust and Zig cater to different people, but when the primary personality behind Zig is leads the way, it shouldn't be a surprise that some tribalism-influenced followers lean hard into it.
> "Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge"
This sounds like it's made by someone who fears discovering they don't know something more than discovering they made a mistake.
I am the reverse: I would prefer to debug my programming language knowledge over debugging my application. I hate debugging applications specifically because making a mistake is SO much worse to me than discovering there is a fact I didn't know yet.
And, of course, debugging your application is discovering there are unknown unknowns in deployment, the worst of the quadrant of knowns and unknowns.
“Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge” to me sounds like it is directed primarily at C and C++., it’s a much more direct translation.
Is LibreOffice all the average home user needs? Absolutely. Enterprise? Not even close, and enterprises would rather license one expensive, shitty bundle than have to cobble together superior solutions from multiple vendors or FLOSS products.
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