The software industry is overrun with left-wing commie influence, which is evident in both proprietary companies and FOSS (free open source software) projects. Perhaps it would be beneficial for non-communists to focus our development efforts on common stack components that best reflect our values? Picking a programming language ecosystem is the first step.

Software choices you make have significant political and ideological consequences. Benefits of making the right decision would include:

• Easier collaboration with like-minded programmers, both for open-source and business projects. (Like, ain't it nice that we're all speaking English?)

• Ideological influence within those projects, spacing out and ejecting CoC-pushing SJWs, and encouraging good governance.

• Independence from government-loving corporations and left-wing online communities that ban you for your politics.

• Genuinely free / permissive / copyfree FOSS software, without proliferation of restrictive commie legalese - no strings attached.

• No danger of encroachment from new restrictions (like finding out that a module imported by a module you imported bans Trump supporters).

• Greater security from using software components from people you can trust, and more like-minded high-IQ eyeballs on the incoming code.

• Forking power in case a project we focus on goes libtard (like FreeBSD's CoC).

I think this is a very practical matter. I believe that our best long-term hope is secession movements (ex. seasteading, northern New Hampshire, etc), and having legal attachments or support needs on the "mainland" is a serious liability. The commies can't allow our secession to succeed, lest ever-more of their smartest tax-slaves begin to escape. And so it is very obvious what will happen: they will call us all (including pacifist libertarian wimps like myself) "Nazis", and they will try to sabotage us in any way that they can!

We are at war (even if it's by non-physical means), and software is a very big part of it. All non-communists are now in the same boat. We already have a very serious need for software security due to cryptocurrencies (i.e. the angry commie scriptkiddie whose module you imported can rob you). Ever-more new technologies (including in medicine and self-defense tech) will be powered by software. Being able to trust your software (which is presently in large part written by our enemies) will eventually become a matter of life and death!

Examples of software components that I think non-communist devs should focus on include OpenBSD and the Nim programming language. Please post your ideas and arguments.

Below is a script to delete all of your submissions and comments on voat. Change the USERNAME and PASS in the script and run.

To install selenium on mac, pip install selenium and brew cask install chromedriver.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Module for deleting all submissions and comments on voat.co
"""

#import sys
import time
from selenium import webdriver

USERNAME = ""
PASS = ""


def login(d):
    body = d.find_element_by_tag_name("body")
    body.click()
    c1 = d.find_element_by_id("container")
    c = c1.find_element_by_id("loginForm")

    for l in c.find_elements_by_tag_name("label"):
        try:
            l.click()
        except:
            pass
    c.find_element_by_id("UserName").send_keys(USERNAME)
    c.find_element_by_id("Password").send_keys(PASS)
    for btn in c.find_elements_by_tag_name("input"):
        if btn.get_attribute("value") == "Log in":
            btn.click()
            break

    time.sleep(1)


def delete_submissions(d):

    cw = driver.current_window_handle

    while True:
        c = d.find_element_by_id("container")

        for comments in c.find_elements_by_class_name("comments"):
            href = comments.get_attribute("href")
            print(href)
            d.execute_script("window.open('about:blank', 'link');")
            d.switch_to.window("link")
            d.get(href)
            time.sleep(1)
            ent = d.find_element_by_class_name("entry")
            ent.find_element_by_link_text("delete").click()
            ent.find_element_by_link_text("yes").click()
            time.sleep(1)
            d.close()
            d.switch_to.window(cw)

        try:
            c = d.find_element_by_id("container")
            nxt = c.find_element_by_link_text("next ›")
            nxt.click()
        except:
            break


def delete_comments(d):

    cw = driver.current_window_handle

    while True:
        c = d.find_element_by_id("container")

        for comments in c.find_elements_by_link_text("permalink"):
            href = comments.get_attribute("href")
            print(href)
            d.execute_script("window.open('about:blank', 'link');")
            d.switch_to.window("link")
            d.get(href)
            time.sleep(1)
            cmnt_area = d.find_element_by_class_name("commentarea")
            ent = cmnt_area.find_element_by_class_name("entry")
            ent.find_element_by_link_text("...").click()
            ent.find_element_by_link_text("delete").click()
            ent.find_element_by_link_text("yes").click()
            time.sleep(1)
            d.close()
            d.switch_to.window(cw)

        try:
            c = d.find_element_by_id("container")
            nxt = c.find_element_by_link_text("next ›")
            nxt.click()
        except:
            break


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # driver = sys.argv[1].strip().capitalize()
    # page = sys.argv[2].strip()
    page = "https://voat.co/account/login"
    driver_name = "Chrome"

    driver = getattr(webdriver, driver_name)()

    try:
        driver.set_page_load_timeout(10)
        driver.get(page)

        login(driver)

        page = "https://voat.co/u/%s/submissions" % USERNAME

        driver.get(page)
        delete_submissions(driver)

        page = "https://voat.co/u/%s/comments" % USERNAME
        driver.get(page)
        delete_comments(driver)

        time.sleep(3)
    finally:
        driver.close()

From my understanding voat uses the .net framework because putt wanted to start a project that used the Microsoft development stack. I really want to get involved in the code with this site but don’t want to learn a stack developed by Microsoft. Is .net worth learning? What companies even use the framework? Are there plans to migrate to a different code base? Please forgive me if these are naive or simple questions. I am posting this to programming because I don’t want to clutter the voatdev board.