In a similar spirit to the “why does it have to be in Rust” question, R already has a robust ecosystem of people doing research and writing packages for the physical sciences, even hydrology. What does writing a whole new system in a new language offer that can’t be achieved with existing software?

Anyone have any good readings or discussions on what Google Play policies are being cited here as the major obstacle? Just curious to learn more.

Edit: 20 testers policy? Sounds onerous.

Awesome! Yep, definitely been there before too. Sometimes premature optimization gets you into more trouble: trying to set up something minimal when the conventional, more widely used approach “just works”.

I will say you build more of an appreciation for how everything works when you have to struggle a bit. Especially networking. I was setting up a static IP the other day and took me more time than I care to admit to figure out it was a 0 instead of a 1 in my gateway. But I took some notes so next time I have to do that hopefully it’ll go a bit smoother.

Have you been able to try the troubleshooting steps outlined in the Network configuration page on the wiki?

Respectfully disagree. I’ve been waking up to Chum Lair from the Sable video game OST for a couple years now. I wake up in a good mood because me and my girlfriend think it’s absolutely ridiculous and hilarious.

Changelog media is another good source to complement this rec. Longer form, as opposed to breaking news, conversations about many OSS related (and software development in general) topics. Some of their now defunct programs like Request For Commits were some of my favorites.

The reality is that virtually all widely used modern codebases contain at least some open source code (source).

I would want to see all upstream updates for anything installed on my system to avoid even considering a partial upgrade.