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Discussion on: What is suckless all about?

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andre aliaman

Hehehe.. That usually can be found when you create an application that I give the name as industrialize applications.

The conditions when you trying to create application/program/service driven by business and place on the edge with the end-user.

Market who place on the edge with end-user always wants to see new feature/new services, easiness to use, and also you can show off to the others. They don't know or care about the detail behind it. Some of them even still don't really know how to operate the User Interface (I talk about 80-90s people). For them, It already really great if they can see it running and gives something good to them. That's why big money always comes to the type of application like that, not the application which has an advance technique, efficient, great in the performance etc.

I think some people who works on big tech understand this condition really well, that's why they create a trend like serverless, cloud computing, etc. So they can facilitate and take the money from there :)

Even, you can find some of articles already said speed doesn't matter at all in this era. Collaboration between service (It means, just use other services, not need to create from scratch), speed to deliver the product, easiness to create more important right now.

In the end, I think it is just perspective which conditions more suitable for you.
And if we think again, other discipline feels the same problem especially music. The interesting part, They already have some alternative answers about such conditions. Some of them, create another team/band/names only for distribute their idealist thinking. Some of them out of the industry when they famous. And the others just accept the situations and change their mind.

By the way, thanks for introduce The Suckless Philosophy. So I know what names about the conditions which I have a discussion before :)

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Angad Sharma

That is a great point of view. Companies do really have more focus on how the product can be delivered faster. In the end it is all about what makes life easier for us. If a program is complicated then it makes it harder for users to derive value out of it. And in the end users do prefer a little bloating if it means saving a lot of time :). In the end, its totally up to the use case.