Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

is toki pona good or bad

is toki pona good or bad

“hey there, GROUND-type POKéMON! my name is RIKA, and i’m a member of the PALDEA ELITE FOUR. did you know GROUND-type POKéMON are my favourite kind of POKéMON? i think you are so much better than those annoying GRASS-type POKéMON. take MEOWSCARADA, for instance; what a pain! i’m so glad this instance is full of GROUND-type POKéMON and not POKéMON like that.”

@aescling become a GROUND-type POKéMON. join us you coward.

@Satsuma they’re prescriptivists

@Satsuma what

« My belief is that the last thing a member of an American Linguistics Department wants is to be mistaken for a member of a Speech Department; but if he were to use IPA notation in his writings he would certainly lay himself open to the suspicion that he was. »

@aschmitz (i think actually webkit and chrome depends on libxml2/libxslt and gecko has their own c++ implementation.)

@aschmitz and yes i would love for someone to rewrite it as well (and make it support XML1.1, and XSLT/XPATH 2.0, and 3.0…), but nobody IS going to do that, because it’s very hard, and in the meantime libxml2 is what is available on every platform, and it still has bugs i would love to see get solved

@aschmitz pretty sure all web browsers depend on either it directly or a fork of it (statically linked, probably, and i’m not sure how exactly the code is joined together)

if not, i’d be interested in finding out whatever they ARE using

in my “why are y’all rewriting everything in Rust while critical infrastructure goes unmaintained” era

libxslt is now unmaintained