The Gemini protocol is brutally simple, which makes it just about too useless for apps, tracking, and commercial purposes. Gemtext, the format for Gemini pages, is very basic; with about half as many features as markdown, it’s barely a step above plain text. As a result, Gemini is a small universe of blogs and personal sites.

Its simplicity makes it easy for people to create compatible clients and services for it. It’s self-hosting friendly and there are also hosting services, like smol.pub and some pubnixes.

Of course, you’ll need to get a Gemini browser or visit a Gemini-to-web proxy to access it.

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    1 month ago

    Types?

    Edit:

    For clarity, consider all the shit an actual real production scenario demands of layering on library after library and framework after fucking framework to make it usable.

    Nobody even USES “JavaScript”, they use like 7 layers to try and turn it into a production ready environment.

    Why.

    Because JavaScript sucks.

    Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of what other languages come with out of the box.