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What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?

I'm incredibly interested in COSMIC DE! For multiple different reasons, actually.

  1. Rust - I'm very interested to see how performant/memory-efficient this DE will be compared with other DEs. Also, I wonder how the Iced toolkit will evolve and be adopted in other projects.
  2. Benefits over GNOME - I'm looking forward to seeing how much out-of-box customizability and features come with COSMIC over GNOME (which I'm currently using).
  3. Maintainability going forward - Since the DE basically started from scratch and is using a much better language for robust software, I wonder how much easier and faster it would be to maintain the desktop environment. This potential improved maintainability could be huge in overtaking other DEs sometime soon.

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Inheritance

You know, I've always read that COBOL projects still get maintained to this day because the costs of rewriting these projects just are too high. I wonder if there's a cutoff point where maintaining them starts costing more than the rewrite. I just don't see how organizations can justify maintaining these projects without these kind of changes forever.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance Announced

Doesn't look good enough to be a proper Avatar adaptation. Everything looks too stiff and the animations are weird. The fire effects look less like fire and more like red/orange blobs.

The backgrounds and town architecture look nice, I guess. Assuming you look at them from a distance.

I'll wait until the reviews come out before I make a final judgment on the game, but I don't exactly have high hopes from what I've seen.

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