Comment by oscar_franco13 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by oscar_franco13 | Hacker News Reader

Hey HackerNews, I'm the creator of Sol.

Here are some answers to your questions:

- Why Sol?

I started using Raycast, and it's nice, but found it cumbersome, too many features tackled on top of each other with even more cumbersome navigation. I'm a ruthless simplifier and I wanted a similar yet I-don't-want-to-configure-you tool. I also believe that VC money backed tools face the though reality of unrealistic ROI at some point, so I fully expect other tools to squeeze money out of you at some point. I develop Sol on my free time building the tool that I like, and it will not have any registration step or run analytics on you on any shape or form.

- Where are the docs? it is not launching?

You seem to have tried the app at the unfortunate time where I did some breaking changes and fixing some bugs (try option + space it should launch). Regarding docs there is none, and there will be none, if I need to explain how to use the app I have already failed.

- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?

A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy.

- Memory use

Not more than chrome! BOOH YA!

Hope you like the app and feel free to submit PRs!

"- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?

A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy."

So it's not connected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)?

> - Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?

> A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy.

No. Sun can never become a black hole: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/why-the-sun-...

Small "s" sun. Not our Sun.

thats a star, our star is called sun

that might need some correction...

Wikipedia states: The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

According to some articles on the web, other stars can be suns as well, if they contain a planetary system.

In common language however "the sun" is typically our star. "a sun" might be other stars as well.

I think most people dont understand and think about the difference and thus think a star is a sun.

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sun:

    sun noun
    \ ˈsən  \
    1 a: often capitalized : the luminous celestial body around
         which the earth and other planets revolve [...]
      b: a celestial body like the sun : STAR

Or to quote Carl Sagan: "Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

Commonly known as a star.

(But now I wonder: is there a difference between stars and suns?)

My understanding is that a star is a star regardless of what is or isn't in orbit.

A sun, however, needs to have planets to be a sun.

I searched if there are "free-floating" stars that don't have any planets in their field of gravity, and results essentially say "not since the early days of the galaxy". So nowadays all/most/the overwhelming majority of stars are suns. Very interesting!

Does it have calculator functionality?

It does. Might be a basic one, I suspect it's just sending your input to JS's eval function, but it gets the job done.

EDIT: I said it looks like JS eval because I put in `sqrt` and it showed me something like `function sqrt() { [native code] }`

When I tried to input some actual JS code it didn't do anything. I thought it might make for a basic REPL but no luck.

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