KDE Releases Plasmate 1.0, A Plasma Workspaces SDK

jrepin writes "The KDE Plasma Workspaces team is excited to announce the first stable release of Plasmate: an add-ons SDK that focuses on ease of use. Plasmate follows the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well". As such, it is not a general purpose IDE but rather a tool specifically tailored to creating Plasma Workspace add-ons using non-compiled languages such as QML and Javascript. It guides each step in the process, simplifying and speeding up project creation, development, adding new assets, testing and publishing. The goal of Plasmate is to enable creating something new in seconds and publishing it immediately."

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they are misusing the term "UNIX philosophy"

[Anonymous Coward]

Plasmate follows the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well".

This specific bit of the "UNIX philosophy" is referring to the transformation of STDIO to facilitate piping. That is clearly not what this tool is designed to do: Plasmate clearly encompasses every part of a specific task, instead of being a general tool designed for reuse in any context to achieve any task.

Re:they are misusing the term "UNIX philosophy"

[CajunArson]

a general tool designed for reuse in any context to achieve any task.

[awk] is not designed for reuse in [my dishawasher] to achieve [cure for cancer].

Therefore awk does not follow the UNIX philosophy. Lather, rinse, repeat for any and all UNIX utilities, functions, etc.

Oh any "everything is a file" is a lie too. I can't open a TCP connection by opening a file, I have to use sockets, which are a different paradigm. Don't even get me started on shared memory!