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That's a good question and a reasonable response to my dismissive critique of their rant. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the answer is. Relative to Psychtool
by an1sotropy 5y ago
That's a good question and a reasonable response to my dismissive critique of their rant. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the answer is.
Relative to Psychtoolbox's longeviity, there are new ways of showing things on a computer, particularly APIs like WebGL and High Resolution Time for showing and timing things from a browser. On the desktop side, the variety of media libraries with python bindings has definitely grown during Psychtoolbox's adherence to Matlab.
Whatever the right approach is, I think the hard problem for Psychtoolbox is that a rather different kind of developer skillset will be required, both for the maintainers and the users. But that's not the fault of MacOS.
- esalman 5y agoI think the maintainers and users are choosing to dedicate their skillset to the technology that serve their purpose the best. It is not MacOS's fault, and given Apple is a trillion-dollar company, it probably doesn't need participation from a niche scientific community anyway. I happen to be conducting a brain imaging workshop today, and so far most of the hiccups have been caused by the quarantine rules in Catalina and up. Thankfully someone found a sudo command to fix it for a some of the participants, but I regretfully had to ask the rest to find a windows/linux machine to work on.