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What are some libraries, software, etc... that you'd like to see be built in open-source? (self.chat)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by noctisatrae to c/chat

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I’m trying to get accustomed to writing asynchronous/concurrent Rust or any language!

I just want to build software that helps people, and hopefully makes friends along the way.

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[–] noctisatrae 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A todo list of problems that will be encountered if we attempt this project, namely the lack of standardisation in legislation site which requires different parsers much like Tachiyomi

[–] jarfil 6 points 10 months ago

That would be a great project indeed... just a heads up:

I was part of a group exploring to do something similar a couple decades ago. The main problem we found, was dealing with those first two points: by the time we figured out all the places a single "state" (this wasn't in the US) stored all their legislation, they had already changed some of them. We realized that it would take either: collaboration from the government in terms of standardizing how they store things... or a constant game of chasing around the changes they made. At the time, we concluded it wasn't practical to do it for free, and indeed some paid services have emerged offering something similar, but they're not open.

My suggestion: if you managed to find a way for governments to make legislation accessible in a standardized way, that would be a HUGE success. Ideally, have it written into constitution, and/or use the constitution to beat government bodies into compliance.

Also a warning: the messy state of things, seems to be a sort of "job security" for some lawyer firms and companies offering the consolidation services, so taking that away may not be easy.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...that's freakin' cool!

[–] noctisatrae 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This could really be an amazing project! I’ll see what I can do!

[–] xilliah 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've also wondered if it's possible to somehow hook git into legislation. To track changes like how laws are amended and superseded and so on.

Law has a lot in common with software and is constantly being improved by a large number of people.

[–] noctisatrae 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Added to the list ! That’s such a clever way of tracking law history !