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by bobajeff 2y ago
Yeah, it didn't matter that it was cheap because you still had to install it and most people even today don't modify the OS their PC comes with. I think BeOS had a restriction that they legally couldn't sell computers because
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>The opportunity for individual financial and ego success is a huge driver for modern popular art culture (for better and for worse). If we take that away, guess what happens? No one wants to do it, anymore. I don't know about finan
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Actually, it sounds like they only just decided to use it in the future once Swift 6 is released. I would guess much of it will still be in C++ for a while.
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From what I can tell. I've not used Tauri and it's been years since I've tried flutter. Tauri currently has poor support for mobile and Linux (because of the state of WebkitGtk). Flutter uses Dart which is not widely used for
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Discord uses electron/React native. Where did you hear it uses .NET?
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I wonder if I can use this to learn a large c++ codebase like Chromium. One of the issues I had trying to learn chromium was that in order to play and experiment with their classes/functions I needed to spend several minutes to link my
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by bobajeff 2y ago
Note for people wanting to use vscode for c or c++ development. The clangd extension* is provides much better code completion and jump to definition compared to the default c/c++ extension. * https://marketplace.visualstudio
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I think you might be onto something with the observation about people moving from old forum software like phpbb to subreddits. It's like what happened to personal websites when things like Blogger, Tumblr and Facebook popped up. It&#x2
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I did when my card stopped being supported by all the distros because it was too old while the legacy driver didn't fully work the same.
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I would assume Object Oriented Programming isn't very important in games. In fact I think there might be a aversion to it now. As an aside I've been thinking lately that OOP isn't very well defined unlike FP. I think that&#x2
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>I noticed how much Nim changes the economics of software writing- you can write easily distributable GUI apps just as quickly as web apps, making GUI apps just as cheap. Why that sounds just too good to be true.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240702210034/https://unit.soft...
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Well it is a Webkit bug. Epiphany/Gnome Web has the same issue. All they could do is either fix whats been broken in the Gtk port of Webkit for years or to start from scratch and use Chromium instead. Neither option is one that a small
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Silverbullet.md looks really good to me. With a few more features it might be able to replace vscode as my note taking app.
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Documentation remains the number one reason I personally don't make Android apps and why electron/web apps are the way to go for most GUI apps these days.
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Same here. I don't spend most of my time typing but rather thinking. So getting good at vim or getting faster at typing will not make me any better. That's not to say that I'm not in favor of being good at typing. I know my k
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That's only fine if you just care about the Web as a software platform. What about security vulnerabilities? What about having choices in browsers? What happens when Google decides they are finally ready to deprecate manifest v2?
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Forking chromium or Firefox or using Webkit plus adding the missing components and fixing broken ones is also not cheap. Again, maintenance is expensive. That is after you find (or train) the people who can reason about those codebases. Whe
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That doesn't really solve the problem. It will involve many many many many hours of development to get to the point where it's a viable alternative and if it ever does eventually reach that state, it will require lots of lots of h
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We are in a situation today where no one can realistically make a competing implementation for Chromium/Webkit/Firefox and at the same time only a company with a large amount of money can afford from and maintain those codebases.
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>IMHO the only viable subset is the empty set. There are some surviving HTML-only browsers that are still usable for e.g. viewing documentation or browsing simple-minded websites (like HN, but they are fewer and fewer every year, unfortu
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I thought that NT was also a Unix system. In any case Windows as a whole isn't terribly different from a Unix system. Unlike say Smalltalk.
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My comment wasn't about comparing it to Rust at all. Adwaita for Swift sounds good an all but it still looks immature. Also, the win32 bindings look even more immature. I agree UI is not there yet for Rust and from what I see it's
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It remains to be seen weather Swift will break out of being just a language for programming Apple applications. There is still no way to make gui applications outside of Apple devices. Unless you want to make your own library or generate&#x
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>Whether Kotlin or some other language (Zig?) gets more popular for native development is of course an open question I don't see how Kotlin and Zig are comparable for native development. Maybe electron/nodejs, Swift or C#. How
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Like what? The only one I can think of is Ada.
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>This change will allow Swift to expand its reach to more platforms and use cases, sparking fresh possibilities and broadening Swift’s impact across the technology landscape. How does having a GitHub organization tangibly impact the impl
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I've wanted to make my own browser by forking chromium. But then I got confronted with the reality of hacking on a Google scale c++ project. I've tried doing it by embedding webkit which is much more doable but I've found tha
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Lately I've been more in favor of making notes with hyperlinks in markdown over bookmarks as I can search those better with vscode and will have more context to what those links are used for.
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Speaking of housing it looks to me like housing costs are having the biggest effect on the economy as it typically costs more than a third of income for most people. It's probably the biggest cost of living expense and so the reason pe

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