I don’t get it. People be out here writing thousands and thousands of lines of shit and can’t be bothered to leave a comment saying what the hell it even does, let alone how it works or why this approach was chosen. I mean yeah you can figure it out on your own, but that’s hours down the drain for something that could have been explained in 30 seconds. Recently I went digging though a kinda large and unwieldy codebase to hunt down an extremely niche but aggravating bug which seems to effect me and maybe four other people in the world. It was reported on the bug tracker FIVE years ago, and the root cause turned out to be trivial as fuck (mouse pointer warping works on Windows and X11, but not Wayland), but all that time, nobody figured it out because the sheer amount of effort it takes to figure out what the hell is going on is crazy.

I don’t mean to single out this one anonymous project though. The majority of projects are like this. Unless you spent your entire childhood aspiring to be a game engine software architect like I did, this shit is completely inaccessable to anybody who doesn’t work in software development professionally (instead, I ended up as a machinist somehow). Comments are good folks. Even for shit which is presumably obvious to people in the software industry. Not everybody is in the software industry. Not everybody is a pro. Throw us a fricken line here lmao.