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That's perhaps great in android, but you can't/shouldn't write code for Linux/Windows/MacOS, where such a system is not in use, and then protest "I'm not the on
by liability 7y ago
That's perhaps great in android, but you can't/shouldn't write code for Linux/Windows/MacOS, where such a system is not in use, and then protest "I'm not the one that sucks." Maybe those OSes should implement such a system, but until they have the "wasted RAM" argument needs to end for anything other than specialty professional software that can reasonably assume itself to be the raison d'être of that computer (e.g. video editing software, CAD, build systems for large software projects, etc.)
- ferzul 7y agoWindows has such a system with UWP. I think UbTouch or whatever the Ubuntu phone successor distribution is called has one too. And I imagine most systems programmers could define an api if they wanted to. I think this is definitely a case where apps need to be antisocial and operating systems need to peg them in. The age of cooperative multitasking is over. Let the OS decide.
- liability 7y agoHarming users to coerce OS designers is a pretty shitty plan. Sorry if that's too blunt, but that's simply the way I feel.