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Drew DeVault sir at cmpwn.com
Tue Feb 23 01:41:05 GMT 2021
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There's no doubt that Gemini draws inspiration from Gopher, but that'snot the matter at hand. I'm not going to rebuke your sources becausethis question is not disputed.
The real question is whether not Gemini is or has ever been a playgroundfor Gophers to innovate on their hot new ideas in, and it most certainlyis not. Solderpunk has gone on record many, many times as disfavoringextensibility. While the specification was under development, sure, itchanged quite a lot, but it has not undergone any major changes for sometime now. With his stance on non-extensibility, the lack of majorchanges in well over a year, alongside statements like this in thespec's introduction:
Although not finalised yet, further changes to the specification are
likely to be relatively small. You can write code to this
pseudo-specification and be confident that it probably won't become
totally non-functional due to massive changes next week, but you are
still urged to keep an eye on ongoing development of the protocol and
make changes as required.
It's pretty reasonable to assume that Gemini has entered its end-gameand it's not open to further innovations or experiments. Stating that itis or has been is the historical revisionism to which I am referring.Gemini has been quite obviously approaching its "done" stages for wellover a year.
If you don't agree, go ask Solderpunk yourself. He doesn't seem to enjoytalking to this community anymore, though, for reasons quite apparent tome.