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by pjmlp 5d ago
Game development, graphics programming and GUI tooling. The alternative being macOS, if Apple actually had competitive prices for all kinds of world economies.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Plenty of us do, so far Valve has failed to make native builds for Linux appealing for game studios, even though they already have to deal with similar APIs on Android, iDevices and PS/Switch.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Windows ecosystem, and all those things MSVC backend can do and LLVM does not. For the same reason a Rust frontend is being developed for GCC.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Why, when they have Swift for that role?
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Also note that isn't much different from debug heap that MSCV was already having in 2000[0], assuming you didn't want to shell out some money to Insure++{1], BoundsChecker[2] and similar products. Or something like SoftBound, from
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by pjmlp 5d ago
I do think though, it is in the best interests for all compiled languages to eventually bootstrap themselves, instead of depending on either C or C++ for their implementation. Either that, or we really need to keep improving C and C++ safet
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by pjmlp 5d ago
The problem is that in many companies doing migrations would be the only job, thus now there is none.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Sure, and the performance improvements across VS 2026 releases prove that it could be much better.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Add to it that they need a compiler team for a Ruby JIT, due to the language choice to run an heavy load server infrastructure.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Yeah, however there are probably much more using Tauri.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
The complaint can be applied to any modern software, unfortunately.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
From what I could understand regarding Sean Parent's last interview at ADSP, Hylo is most likely not happening at all, given the raise of AI tooling, with Dave Abrahams re-focusing into non-computing related work going forward, https:
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by pjmlp 6d ago
They were not the only ones, see PTC, Aicas, IBM, and a few others. The big difference until GraalVM and OpenJ9 became available as open source, was that all those vendors made AOT compilation a commercial feature, and thus most devs never
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Not at all, this is OpenJDK getting JIT cache feature like OpenJ9 has since 2008, or ART since Android 7.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Why should it? COM and WinRT (basically COM Next) are the way to do cross language Interoperability in Windows since VB 5 replaced VBX with OCX, it was a key feature in .NET Framework design, and revamped on Windows 8, when WinRT was introd
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by pjmlp 6d ago
The problem is the Webview2 prevalence, and note many Rust projects love their webviews as well.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
You have it already on VSCode, which isn't quite the same, however nowadays it is an open question which one is more relevant for Microsoft's management, especially given that VS isn't cross platform (see Azure), and is stuck
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by pjmlp 6d ago
This is very big news, all major OS vendors that also have a role in C and C++ language tooling, now have diversified their options in systems programming languages for greenfield development. Additionally we finally get some public news ab
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by pjmlp 6d ago
That is called Trusted Computing Base in security speech, having ensure Erlang runtime implementation is safe, is a much reduced effort than certifying a telecommunications distributed application 100% written in C as equally safe under the
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Laptops are also PCs. Yeah, that is why no one uses Steam, only old games there.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Still, https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/poland However, yeah iPhones hold quite well in 2nd hand market.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Yes, it was pretty much Atari, Commodore, Acorn and PC over here, plus some lesser known brands, like MSX on Netherlands. However even today, if you go to the European countries less fortunate with their economies, having anything Apple is
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by pjmlp 6d ago
> Expensive boutique manufacturer that basically catered to a niche audience of media professionals. As much true back then, as it is in 2026, with the added category of some GNU/Linux users buying shiny hardware and then complaini
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by pjmlp 6d ago
OpenSTEP was already multi-architecture when the merge happened, as NeXT was going cross platform to try the rescue the company at the time.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Short reminder to the younger folks that 30 years ago it felt just like that for Apple, and then they almost went bankrupt.
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by pjmlp 7d ago
What second coming? If I had the option I would still be using either Mercurial or SVN. In fact, the way I use Git is hardly any different, I have no interest in getting a black belt in git magic.
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by pjmlp 7d ago
There are plenty Symbian phones around on 2nd hand shops.
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by pjmlp 7d ago
Not at all, I personally never used nor plan to. I am a big advocate of classes, not inline styles spaghetti. The only contact I had with it was due to FE teams jumping into it, however every couple of months is something else anyway.
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by pjmlp 7d ago
Windows development in general, sadly, hence why I refer that Microsoft sees Azure as Azure OS. If you think about it, all hyperscalers are hardly any different from old timesharing OSes, the only big difference is the way we get to log int
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by pjmlp 7d ago
What I find funny is the whole "PC gaming is growing" kind of speech, as some generations abandon consoles for PCs. I and most of my peers have been playing home computers, since the 8 bit days, eventually moved into PC gaming wit

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