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Do people write compiled programs any more? (en-mass) Especially large ones? I remember compiling a 2.4 kernel on a 486 once, only kernel to suppose the PCMCIA
by isostatic 8y ago
Do people write compiled programs any more? (en-mass) Especially large ones?
I remember compiling a 2.4 kernel on a 486 once, only kernel to suppose the PCMCIA network card. It didn't go quickly. If you really want to compile the program, vou can always do the compilation on a server.
- kbart 8y agoOf course they do. Where do you think you get your kernels, drivers, firmware for various IoT from etc.? Compiling a small (~100 MB), custom OS purely (as much as it's possible) from source code can still take hours even on modern laptop.
- isostatic 8y agoWell yes, of course, however as a percentage of people writing code, how many write in a traditional compile-once run-many language which are large enough projects they take a significant amount of time to compile. When dkms recompiles one custome module I use on an 8 year old laptop it takes a few seconds. Even when you're working on projects that take a long time (say on ffmpeg), you're not typically recompiling the entire thing each time. On the other hand doing a full build for all architectures takes hours on a desktop, so is far more sensible to ship off to a build service running elsewhere on the network. Large scale compiling on a desktop machine feels like a fairly niche problem compared with the vast majority of "code" written today.
- 0xfeba 8y agoc/c++ are still very much alive and now we have rust, golang, etc. So yeah. Even JS is "compiled" now with webpack.