Internet gets wind that author of the markview.nvim plugin is student from Bangladesh who wrote it entirely on a phone, now everybody is trying to get them a laptop. (Links in post body)

Muehe@lemmy.ml · edit-2 2 months ago

Internet gets wind that author of the markview.nvim plugin is student from Bangladesh who wrote it entirely on a phone, now everybody is trying to get them a laptop. (Links in post body)

bloup@lemmy.sdf.org · edit-2 2 months ago

Granted, I am not a software engineer, but in my personal experience I find simply using my smart phone to be convenient enough these days that transitioning into a different paradigm to accomplish a task almost always feels more inconvenient. Even when I want to or need to do a little bit of programming.

I guess I’m kind of wondering if anybody actually asked him why he doesn’t use a laptop, because it sort of seems like people are assuming that because he’s from Bangladesh, it must be because he can’t afford one and I think that’s extremely presumptuous and potentially hurtful.

Muehe@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

Nah, all good. The question was asked and answered on Github. They also mentioned on Reddit that hardware is very overpriced in Bangladesh and they are too young to have an ID and thus bank account.