But it is no longer updated, is it?

Thanks anyway for the work on sold.

> But it is no longer updated, is it?

Essentially, yes, but that’s because Apple’s new linker is so much faster than it was. You can use it instead.

Out of curiosity, do you know what technical choices Apple made to be so much faster?

It’s parallelized. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36218330

I don't know the details, but once it is proven that achieving lld/mold/sold-level performance is technically feasible, it shouldn't be extremely hard to achieve similar success for macOS.

Sold was just mold under a commercial license. Mold is still maintained and now licensed permissively.

That's true but mold doesn't have MacOS support.

It's about emerging markets.

What are those? According to Wikipedia most countries have 60% 4G penetration. Not sure what it means and how accurate it is though.

Turns out 40% of several billion is a pretty large number.

What interests me is does they respect licenses of the open source stuff they use?

The DPRK does not respect the GPL, unsurprisingly.

Though they are a party to the Berne Convention, so they ought to.

No, it's all closed source. The binaries aren't publicly distributed either, they seem to be the result of leaks.

Makes me wonder what they thought they were going achieve. I'm assuming it's based on a Linux distribution?

I guess when your entire nation is a state controlled echo chamber it's easy to just think that criticism of your code is just jealousy of your achievements.

GPL'ed code is probably legal in this case, because they don't distribute publicly. It would be a decently easy case to make in an international IP court that distribution within North Korea is not a public release. However, if a North Korean citizen demanded the source code for Red Star, they may be obligated to provide it, lest they are in violation of the GPL.

For me, it's a tool to track my time i'm spending on which projects.

How do you track time that you spend on the project that is not done inside the editor; for example research?

Exactly my thoughts. Many projects are more about the research, and less about the time purely spent coding. Many times, my research time > coding time, so it would be cool if WakaTime made a Chrome plugin that could track that time.

I use rescuetime to track browser page titles. I use wakatime for tracking too.

I use emacs and one org mode file per project so it tracks kind of well as long as my research produces notes.

As a proper Emacs user I also do my e-mailing there and my e-mail is in a git repository. Whenever I feel like I haven't got much done in a day I can usually verify that I it was because I spend like half a day writing e-mails instead of coding.

One of the more surprising stats I have found out about myself is that I regulary spend about 5% project time writing git commit messages.

I actually find the most value of wakatime that I can keep track of that I don't work too much on the "wrong" projects. Wakatime has helped me hold off things I should not focus on that much.

Wakatime has at least somewhat reduced my imposter syndrome tendencies because I can use it to disprove the feeling that I'm not getting things done because it tells me that I got things done even if it was not the things I originally had plan to get done.

Would be great.