@mjg59 @acsawdey Getting such a project running and functional is just one side of such a challenge. Getting applications written for it will be much more harder, especially applications people need and want to use.

Unless, of course, you provide a libc compat wrapper library exposing C API/ABIs again to make the application porting simpler ... Which puts you back to start again.

@mjg59 @iris_meredith @gabriel

If you write all the needed functions the libc library provides into a language specific system library, you can escape a lot of C APIs, until you need to communicate with kernel ABIs. Then you're back at wrapping the language native APIs into a C ABI to be able to the syscalls.

And what will make it even more fun ... You'll need to do that for each single OS platform you want to support, to have something being portable.

This kind of stunts is something you only can afford to do on specialised embedded single purpose systems where you need to have as little code running as possible, to be able to fully audit all possible call chains - like in criticial secure systems for aviation or nuclear power plant systems and such like. It won't ever happen on general purpose systems at all.

We're basically stuck with C ABIs until the day someone is successful replacing it something new and better AND provide all the applications people need and want to use at the same time. It will be a revolutionary paradigm shift if someone is capable of pulling that one off. And I'm not holding my breath.

@endorama It certainly was not intended to add more burden to anyone.

I would not call it a cultural problem. It's purely lack of decent and respectful behaviour. And it shouldn't be needed to call out such behaviours at all.

And that was what I was thinking of with my reply ... A "simple" approach to tackle such behaviour is to quickly disable the possibility for further interaction. Reporting and blocking can be tedious and with limited reach. More like, "Would you have used a button to stop this person from troubling you and your followers?" And "From your experience, what action could such a button provide which would have a chance to improve your situation?"

I have not experienced other users behaving that badly towards me, so I wouldn't know what could possibly make a real difference.

Such behaviours won't go away ignoring it, nor just blocking individual users. Blocking domains won't be a good solution either in many cases.

If we can't discuss these things, nothing will improve in the end.

@vkc