I move between machines a lot, and so gave up on having a local RSS reader. I looked for a self-hosted web one, but didn't find one that I liked. So I setup a dovecot IMAP server and use feed2imap-go to sync my RSS feeds to IMAP folders. Now I can use email clients on my machines to access my RSS feeds in a synchronized manner.<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go">https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go</a>
Funny. I was working on an RSS reader inspired by Newsboat too. Although my project's goal was to avoid the C's rough edges that Newsboat has: better parsers, richer feeds file syntax, more configurability (done in a nicer way), less segfaults. I chose to implement it in Haskell, even got a working prototype, but then didn't keep working on it consistently (and I was unsure about the concept).<p>Newsboat's authors are rewriting it in Rust. They concluded (last time I checked) that C and some early design decisions were bad for its development now and they want to rewrite it in Rust because this is something that can be done gradually (and, I think, because they liked Rust). Before they settled down with Rust, they even considered Haskell, but Rust won.<p>Surprising that this project is in C. Given a chance to start fresh, why not choose a better language? Even Rust, I think, is unnecessarily low-level for an applied, not performance-critical program like an RSS reader. That's why I chose Haskell. Any other high-level programming language would be a better choice than C.
Not sure I’d call a terminal-based RSS reader “suckless”, but to each his own, I guess.<p>Personally, I prefer using one that renders HTML and shows pictures :)
Ive been using Newsboat since before it was called Newsboat, when it was called Newsbeuter. Newsboat does have some oddities in its config and open issues that still havent been resolved (I suspect due to the rewrite) so this alternative does make me curious to try something thats a fresh start.