<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@va2lam" class="u-url mention">@<span>va2lam</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@krismicinski" class="u-url mention">@<span>krismicinski</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@yforster" class="u-url mention">@<span>yforster</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> Unfortunately, for me at least, compilers have moved out of focus over the past two decades. I didn&#39;t want to believe it at first, but by now the field has become almost invisible. Ten+ years ago, PLDI people told me to just submit to CGO, but is it part of PACMPL?</p><p>Industry could absorb 10x more compiler people, there&#39;s amazing research to be done and, I really think we&#39;re entering a new golden age for compilers. It&#39;s just at odds with...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@krismicinski" class="u-url mention">@<span>krismicinski</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@va2lam" class="u-url mention">@<span>va2lam</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> I think it&#39;s important to calibrate &quot;random IEEE venues&quot; with PL: Security, as a field, has top ranked IEEE conferences. So just looking at society is often insufficient.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/@zaclys" class="u-url mention">@<span>zaclys</span></a></span> Je ne pense pas que vous soyez concerné mais ca vaux peut être le coup d&#39;y jeter un œil ?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> This sounds awful! But the link you shared doesn’t seem to say anything related to running your forum. What did I miss? (fellow forum<br />operator here)</p>

<p>I better conclude this rant before it goes on too long. I guess I sat on this one for too long and it just kinda got out.</p><p>Open Source can be, and should be, the BEST choice for people. All people! Not just electronics greybeards or Arch-Linux-Enjoyers.</p><p>This is in essence, my guiding principal. I don&#39;t want to just make a scope that&#39;s &quot;good for an open source project&quot;, I want it to be the best scope for most people - period.</p>

<p>But being easy to use doesn&#39;t mean it can&#39;t be feature-rich and powerful. A learning curve is fine, but it shouldn&#39;t be a wall.</p><p>Hardware wise your design is set in stone (ermm... fiberglass) and every feature adds to cost and complexity. So the ideal is to build something that&#39;s affordable enough for beginners, but powerful enough to not get chucked in the bin when they become experts.</p>

<p>So if you want to see people using open tools, do what you can to remove those barriers!</p><p>Make your software easy to install and use - yes, even on Windows.</p><p>Do what you can to make your hardware easy to build with the least fancy tools possible (I moved every 0201 up to an 0402 to give folks a fighting chance!) and on accessible PCB technology (I try to stick with what OSHpark can build).</p>

<p>People who chose to contribute to open source obviously want things to be more open and accessible. And if you take away the barriers they face, they *will* learn and use an open software or tool. </p><p>Hell, even after spending so much time fighting it, I still love KiCad, I love that it exists and I want to see it get better.</p><p>But if ThunderScope didn&#39;t become my full time job, I probably wouldn&#39;t have had the time or motivation to fight the tooling for weeks and switch the design over.</p>

<p>And this is why I don&#39;t believe in judging a open source project on how open the tools/software it uses are. </p><p>What matters is that you are taking time in your life to share your knowledge and skills freely and openly with the rest of the world.</p><p>If using the tools you&#39;re familiar with makes that possible for you - use them!</p>