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When did everything become extensible instead of extendable. Do they mean different things? Is it a case of while vs whilst? On a more related note, I find it
by FPGAhacker 7y ago
When did everything become extensible instead of extendable. Do they mean different things? Is it a case of while vs whilst?
On a more related note, I find it interesting that the GUI doesn’t appear to be a toolkit like QT, but lower level, like a GUI designed for in-game use.
- pfranz 7y ago> I find it interesting that the GUI doesn’t appear to be a toolkit like QT, but lower level, like a GUI designed for in-game use. I can't speak for this project, but what you're describing is an Immediate Mode GUI [1]. imgui is one that comes up a lot. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Mode_GUI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Mode_GUI
- samatman 7y agoOnly one of these, extensible, was a word at all until the 1940s[0], and extendable is still the less common word. This is the not-uncommon case where the irregular form is slowly losing ground to the regular form. It's possible that in a century, 'extensible' will be considered archaic. [0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=extendable%2C+extensible&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cextendable%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cextensible%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=extendable%2C+...
- FPGAhacker 7y agoWow, that’s fascinating. Thanks for thinking of using google’s ngram tool. I have played around with it a few times but it completely slipped my mind.
- cloudhead 7y agoYeah - I don't like the "look" of any of the available GUI toolkits, and I was going for something very minimal in terms of UI, so I decided to build it from scratch. I am considering using something like stretch[0] to handle layout concerns eventually. [0]: https://github.com/vislyhq/stretch https://github.com/vislyhq/stretch