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by Crinus 7y ago
Also for CPUs there is ispc ( https://ispc.github.io/ ) which provides a language that takes advantage of modern CPU's parallel friendly features with a C-like syntax. From the site: > ispc compiles a C-based SPMD pro
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by Crinus 7y ago
This still requires xmake to be installed. CMake does that too, as does Premake and a bunch of other tools, but they all need to be installed - except Autotools. What i'm talking about is generating a script for something that is part
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by Crinus 7y ago
I haven't really thought much about accessibility TBH, especially around KDE. At least not outside some basic stuff, like color schemes and the like. I haven't used KDE much but from my little use i found it better than GNOME - ma
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by Crinus 7y ago
Themes are not enough (f.e. there isn't much you can do from a theme when it comes to an application using a header bar instead of a menu bar) and i wasn't talking about imitating Windows' style (as i said it is inconsistent)
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by Crinus 7y ago
I seriously believe that the last time any real thought went into usability in UI was with Windows 95 - and even that wasn't free from form-over-function issues. In Windows 3.0 it was meant that only elements you could interact with th
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not sure how it differs from all the existing tools really, it looks like it does more or less the same stuff, just slightly differently. Also it does look like it requires that xmake is itself installed on the target system. Perso
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by Crinus 7y ago
I think Borland C++ did all the above in the 90s, having to manually tell GCC which libraries to link against (and with even in the "correct" order!) was something i found baffling back when i first tried MinGW. Though it did help
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by Crinus 7y ago
That is Macbook's issue though, no software should be able to damage the hardware, no matter what it does, unless there is a hardware flaw.
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by Crinus 7y ago
The problem is that Google errs too much on the it-is-spam side. Having to delete a few spam mails isn't a big issue if the alternative is losing legitimate mails because of overzealous filters.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes, but it isn't orthogonal to 3rd party stores in that you need to escape it for them to work. And really the same applies with a lot of other application types too.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I know that Emacs has good support for Lisps in general, my comment was a joke towards what i consider basic features of an IDE (the whole 'modern' and 'advanced' thing when referring to stuff that were available in the
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Think of the hacker culture today and now imagine the same rate of change for biological engineering. I can't wait for all the pre-alpha version creatures :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
Ah, somehow i missed that it is build on IntelliJ. I thought it was a native macOS application.
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by Crinus 7y ago
It might be some future for niche/specific uses, but i'm certain the current model of downloading an installer for applications and games or having a (non-sandboxed) downloader like Steam, Galaxy, Origin, EGS, etc will remain the
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by Crinus 7y ago
You say that but one thing that i always dislike when i consider taking a look at Lisps is how everything seems to be either on Emacs or looks like it'd really like to be Emacs. Personally I want a full blown IDE that takes advantage o
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well yeah, but it isn't specific to registry or even to Windows, you could get that with pretty much any extensible system. In Window Maker, for example, you can set up the application menu to use a dynamically filled entry so i wrote
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Isn't that possibly asking for a bit much? The Rust compiler is doing significantly more than a C compiler, so why would be expect it to have C-like speeds? I do not expect it, i'd just want it to be fast for me to want to us
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I think user time is more valuable than developer time Developers are users of their development tools. > when building complex/efficient software expecting lightning builds isn't just unwarranted, it's selfish. This
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW i do not care that much about having LLVM's optimizations. As long as there are a few decent optimizations to do most of the stupid stuff i'm fine - i can do the rest myself whenever (and if) needed. It is only a very tiny pa
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by Crinus 7y ago
Due to responsiveness. When i move or resize a window, the UI feels too sluggish with the window (or its edge) being several frames behind the mouse cursor (which is composited by the GPU on top of the most recent framebuffer state). Withou
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by Crinus 7y ago
> It feels like there's no one at Apple (or other companies) like that anymore. There certainly are people like that, it is just that unlike Jobs they have no voice on the matter. Same with other companies.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Where the future is also sandboxed Judging from Windows Store/UWP/etc acceptance, it doesn't really seem much of a future. > they would need to rewrite the applications from scratch Nah, this is never going to happen
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by Crinus 7y ago
Growing up everyone had a Nokia phone. The Nokia 6600 specifically (which had a multitasking, internet enabled OS with IMO the best J2ME implementation and also allowed you to install arbitrary native programs either from a PC or download t
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by Crinus 7y ago
One's sanity is another's insanity. I dislike vsync'd desktop (and it is my #1 annoyance with Windows since 8, i just put up with it) so for me the sane option is the existing default one.
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is one of those 90s inspired urban tales. Even a decade old CPU can rip through the entire registry without breaking a sweat. And it is just a hierarchical database, nothing special about it. It shouldn't be very different than ac
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by Crinus 7y ago
This isn't about learnability or time to fluency, it is about readability. The & issue i mention for example isn't about how easy it is to learn about references, but about how readable is when, e.g, you are reading some patch
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by Crinus 7y ago
While i appreciate the type safety that Rust may provide (even if it is overblown and only just a little, it can still be useful - e.g. while i prefer C, i do like C++'s "enum class"), my two main issues are that it is only a
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by Crinus 7y ago
Information density isn't the end goal though, otherwise we'd all be writing into something like APL or its derivatives (K/Q/J/etc). And yeah, if you have ever missed a & in C++ you can easily see why a single c
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by Crinus 7y ago
> That will happen to any project that takes any form of sponsorship money. People sponsoring will always want to prioritize their needs. Right, this is exactly what i wrote. > KDE, with it's very successful suite of OSS, cross p
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by Crinus 7y ago
The "i" in my comment doesn't refer to me specifically, it is like the "royal you" but for a single person (not sure if there is a name for it).

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