Enlightened (rant about EFL) (2015)
Enlightened (rant about EFL) (2015)
I work for a certain corporation which uses a certain product. This is its story. To put the quality of this product into perspective, let me say it’s been in development for about 20 years and has pretty much no users (besides my corp and some “hey - let...
If I recall, Enlightenment used to have a rather focal fan base at one time. The DE was a lot prettier than most of its contemporaries, and was relatively lightweight despite having animated effects and everything. I always thought EFL was one of the hidden gems of the Linux ecosystem that was left in GTKs and Qts shadow, but after reading the article (back when it was first published) I realized there was probably a good reason it never got popular. I thought the story was embellished, as thedailywtf articles typically are, with the "SPANK! SPANK! SPANK! Naughty programmer!" stuff, so I downloaded EFL source code and checked. OMG, it was a real error message. (Though I believe it has since been removed.)
The company in question using EFL was (probably) Samsung, who apparently still uses it as the native graphical toolkit for Tizen.
Bruh, I read this as ELF instead of EFL and was hoping on learning something interesting about the format.
But then I started the TTS to read out loud and noticed it said E-F-L.
Did you then feel enlightened?