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The Programmer Compass (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

rust is more proprietary than linus.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Emacs, icecat, guix, parabola, c, c++. Stallman. What are the others in that quadrant?

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GNU Savannah and old thinkpads that can run with fully free software.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Amazing how RMS is now on the traditional end of traditional to disruptive.

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

At work I'm the only dude that uses Windows and Linux. Everyone else uses Macs.

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[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TS, JS, Java, and Codium are proprietary?

[–] Hack3900@lemy.lol 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think Codium is on this image

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Topleft of Soydev square? Or is that VS Code?

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's VSCode

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I think you got that mixed up, the VSCode icon is in the Soydev square.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Is bit keeper even still around anymore?

[–] entwine@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the logo between Guix and C?

[–] MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

parabola linux

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Freedom is to proprietary as libertarian is to authoritarian. Tradition is to distruption as political right is to political left. Better would be for the x axis to be left-to-right disruption->tradition and the y axis to be bottom-to-top freedom->proprietary. So, rotated 90° counterclockwise and then mirrored left-to-right.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I am offended that scratch isn't on here

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This whole chart should've been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't that put Bill Gates on the "freedom" side?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

No, I mean the whole chart should be rotated, including the labels. I want "freedom" to be across the bottom and "proprietary" to be across the top, so that it matches "libertarian" and "authoritarian" on the political compass.

("Tradition" and "disruption" don't map to "left" and "right" quite as well, but if it were exact it would just be the political compass instead of just analogous to it.)

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 20 hours ago

Ah, I get it now.

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