To be fair, Java's lack of support seems to have more to do with them needing to fix the whole primitive vs object mess rather than a lack of effort. It sounds like the Vector API will be stabilized shortly after they figure that out, but who knows how long it will take.
IIRC, when the Asahi project first started, Apple's response was they they didn't care about the project, and would make no efforts to hinder or help them. They also hinted that running an alternate OS was an acceptable use of device.
Man you randomly reminded me of when magic lantern was completely changing the game with their firmware side load on Canon DSLR’s. Then after a few years Canon decided “nah screw y’all” as they quietly pushed a firmware update that blocked it.
For most modern programming languages, LSP servers are trivial to install. You can usually get them through your language or distro's package manager in one command line invocation. Considering that there are sometimes multiple servers with their own pros and cons for a language, this can be kinda nice.
The only one I've ran into that is different is Java, but considering how underdeveloped Java LSP servers are, you probably don't want to be using emacs for Java development.
Reading through those quotes, I get the impression that Stallman doesn't understand why underaged people can't give consent to people considered adults by the legal system. It falls in line with his other misunderstandings or lack of awareness on social issues.
He's right that young people have agency and can make informed decisions about themselves, but fails to recognize the social pressures that means that young people often aren't in a position to say no, or even understand that they can can say no. There are financial, social, and even legal power imbalances between minors and non-minors that make it impossible to assert that certain interactions are consentual, even if they aren't of a sexual nature. It's these power imbalances that are the issue, not whether or not a young person has enough factually to understand what they are consenting to. Interactions like this are abuses of the power that adults have over children, and that's a big part of what makes them so disturbing.
My impression of Rust crates is that most are developed because a standardized solution to the problem didn't exist or didn't meet the author's needs, so they built their own. Many are well designed, but were never used by enough people to become truly usable or robust before they were abandoned.
It seems like outside certain problem domains, there isn't any effort to pool resources to keep projects alive. The few I did find were forks of forks where each subsequent maintainer stopped responding to proposed changes.
That's really as far as they need to go; if the userland is compatible with Linux, it can use all of the work that KDE and other organizations have put into building mobile interfaces.
These projects have stuff that works, but the lack of firmware for chips that can connect to modern cell infrastructure means that they can't really create an appealing product. The OS layer is where all previous Linux phone efforts have failed, and I hope the FSF makes it farther than everyone else has.
> The OS layer is where all previous Linux phone efforts have failed
The OS layer is where the existing projects are thriving, with various distros and shells to choose from to match one's needs and tastes. It's the appropriate hardware that's in undersupply. I'm using a Librem 5, a 2019 design, and if I wanted to switch to something newer I can't because there's no viable upgrade path on the market. No other hardware vendor has invested significant resources into mobile GNU/Linux since then, everything else is either purely community-based or uses Halium.
Does webrender work with the Librem 5? Last time I checked it didn't-- Firefox disallowed it because the etnaviv driver didn't have all the features available needed to enable it. It appears there's been a lot of work on etnaviv recently but I don't know if it affects this issue.
etnaviv doesn't do GLES3 yet, so no, but the work to support it (mostly done by Christian Gmeiner) is ongoing and progressing. I'm using Epiphany though, it's pretty snappy these days and I make extensive use of its webapp feature. I don't even remember when was the last time I had to fallback to Firefox because of some incompatibility, but it did happen at least once.
I've been working on a legacy server-rendered app that has a bunch of ajax calls, and stock web components and their shadow DOM has been super helpful to keep the mess at bay. Most of the work is actually making the app more accessible, actually.
The trick is that the components really do need to be self contained, and you need to use slots and custom attributes to bridge the gaps. Styling is the most annoying part for me, but I just include the same global imports that the main page has.
