Speaking of engines and frameworks and whatever, something...

Speaking of engines and frameworks and whatever, something I've noticed with a lot of projects is that they love to advertise themselves as being:

- simple
- powerful
- flexible
- modern

The fun part about all of those words is that they mean absolutely nothing.

Like 18 January at 10:05 | Open on mastodon.tymoon.eu

7 comments

Hayley

@shinmera no blazing fast or rocket emojis?

18 January at 10:05 | Open on social.applied-langua.ge

I'm bad at advertising, which is why Trial's blurb doesn't use any of those words

18 January at 10:06 | Open on mastodon.tymoon.eu

mia

@shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.eu yep, i don’t really like when free software projects pretend like they’re selling a product

see also: en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_description_guidelines

18 January at 11:55 | Open on movsw.0x0.st

λzyd

@shinmera The first two bug the absolute shit out of me. What kind of techshit isn't "powerful"?

18 January at 10:41 | Open on emacs.ch

@zyd It means your electricity bills will be through the roof!

18 January at 10:43 | Open on mastodon.tymoon.eu

Piotr

@shinmera Also, simple is the opposite of powerful and flexible. You can't have both. It's either simple and weak, or powerful/flexible and complex.

18 January at 13:16 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

@shinmera I always hope “modern” will mean abstract, geometric colors that will look good on the wall behind my Eames knock-off chair.

18 January at 13:49 | Open on hachyderm.io