[2026-05-26T17:42:43Z] <midfavila> anyone here play around with dialog(1) much?
[2026-05-26T17:45:38Z] <midfavila> something i've been thinking about is ~~shamelessly ripping off~~ taking inspiration from xdialog and writing something similar using athena, with robert falk's extensions
[2026-05-26T17:48:22Z] <midfavila> i'd *like* to maintain compatibility, but it would also be nice to, i dunno, maybe try and make some extensions 
[2026-05-26T17:48:52Z] <midfavila> like it would be super cool for example if i could somehow get falk's tabbing widget to support swallowing other windows via xembed
[2026-05-26T17:50:10Z] <midfavila> could replace a lot of the standard X distribution's utilities too...
[2026-05-26T17:50:27Z] <midfavila> for example, xmessage, xman, xmore, etc
[2026-05-26T17:51:33Z] <midfavila> i can't imagine it would be too difficult. xdialog itself is only like 5k lines of C in total
[2026-05-26T23:21:13Z] <dery> just found out that xfs supports (some) CoW semantics
[2026-05-26T23:23:17Z] <dery> thinking of unironically switching to that as I use ccache lots
[2026-05-26T23:23:44Z] <dery> midfavila: I recall you talking a lot about XFS, is it good? Like, can I assume that it's reasonably plug-n-play and stable like ext4?
[2026-05-26T23:24:14Z] <dery> btrfs is more full-featured (snapshots look tasty) but it feels a bit more maintenance heavy just like zfs. at least it's mainline
[2026-05-26T23:27:14Z] <dery> FTR I actually confirmed that ccache supports reflinks, which make copies pretty much instantaneous at the cost of disabling cached object compression