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maxloh commented on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years   sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower
behnamoh · an hour ago
Adobe Reader is the first app I don't install on new machines.

It's slow and sluggish, riddled with dark patterns and annoying pop ups, disrespects the user in every possible way, and hides basic editing functionality behind subscriptions.

The trashiest piece of crap software. It's up there with MS Word (which gets progressively more bloated on Mac).

Edit: Added "software" after crap for clarity.

maxloh · 34 minutes ago
Adobe Reader (or Acrobat Reader) is still the industry standard for PDF documents, though.

I once found that a PDF file created with OnlyOffice displayed as intended on Chrome, but its embedded font couldn't be recognized or rendered correctly on Acrobat.

I keep Acrobat installed only for verifying the integrity of the PDF files I've created.

maxloh commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
masklinn · 3 days ago
Carbon exists only for interoperating with and transitioning off of C++. Creating a new code base in carbon doesn’t really make sense, and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.
maxloh · 3 days ago
> ... and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.

Could you quote which paragraph you're talking about?

AFAIK, interoperability with C++ code is just one of their explicit goals; they only place that as the last item in the "Language Goals" section.

maxloh commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
jonathan920 · 3 days ago
Oh no , Rust is too tough, go is no good, am i going back to java?
maxloh · 3 days ago
Maybe the new in-development Carbon language? It sounds promising, but it is nowhere near its 1.0 release.
maxloh commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"   github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
meindnoch · 6 days ago
maxloh · 6 days ago
An implementation with >90% market share becomes the defacto standard.
maxloh commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"   github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
varbhat · 6 days ago
i thought that HTML spec is immutable.
maxloh · 6 days ago
The HTML spec is actually constantly evolving. New features like the dialog element [0] and popover [1] were added every year. But removing something from the spec is very rare, if it ever happened before.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

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