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by leakbang 4y ago
> Worse, there're no good open source implementations of GPU-based ones. Microsoft ships an implementation as a part of OS (Direct2D) but it's not open source. Linux simply doesn't have an equivalent. What about OpenGL? I
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by leakbang 4y ago
Thanks a lot for your sound recommendation. I will take a close look at Ada, and I will watch your presentation too. It looks very promising.
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by leakbang 4y ago
I agree with you that using a GPU accelerated API has many more benefits. I was trying to learn Xlib and Cairo to learn the 'nuts and bolts' of rendering and also because they didn't require other libraries. I will look both
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by leakbang 4y ago
I'll look at Ada closely. After a quick glance, the activity done in Ada seems concerning but I'll take a good look at it. Thank you for your recommendation.
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by leakbang 4y ago
Thank you for your sound advice. I'll definitely consider what you said and will think carefully about it.
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by leakbang 4y ago
I never thought of it, mainly because I've never seen it anywhere. But I did quickly glance and it and it looks very interesting. Although I will take a closer look to see how active the community is, and the documentations too. Thank
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by leakbang 4y ago
You are right. Although I believe almost all of the popular graphics libraries has bindings for Go & Rust. C++ is definitely powerful for this use-case and I believe it has a very active community as well. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by leakbang 4y ago
This looks interesting. I'll look more into it. The only thing that concerns me is the overhead and the automatic garbage collector. But GO has those as well. Thank you for your recommendation.
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by leakbang 4y ago
C itself wasn't the problem but rather learning to use Xlib and Cairo was very difficult. A massive amount of code that I found on the internet was un-compilable. The documentation is extremely old and I was relying a lot on taking alr
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by leakbang 4y ago
I just quickly looked at it. It seems to be nice by a quick glance. I will look at it in depth. Thank you for your suggestion :)
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Ask HN: Modern Alternatives to C
17 points by leakbang 4y ago|47 comments
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by leakbang 4y ago
Intriguing yet terrifying at the same time.
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by leakbang 4y ago
Mind Uploading - AKA Whole Brain Emulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading
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by leakbang 4y ago
What has happened, you cannot influence. But you can certainly influence what's happening and what's going to happen. The outcome of most actions in life is a coin toss. Hard work, dedication, and charisma can certainly affect the
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by leakbang 4y ago
I've been browsing the site a little bit and I've got a question. Who is this or what is this for? I couldn't think of a personal use case for it so I'm asking out of curiosity.
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by leakbang 4y ago
This looks pretty cool! It feels like a new take on the idea of mailing lists. One suggestion that came to my mind, is to have the ability for viewers to subscribe to conversations. It could be either through Email notifications or RSS.
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by leakbang 4y ago
Wow, this is amazing. I'm shocked I didn't know of this earlier.
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A super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (a.k.a. Stylo)(hacks.mozilla.org)
1 points by leakbang 4y ago|0 comments
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by leakbang 4y ago
So I tried this on my phone (Android - Bromite browser) and it's not working. But from the comments, I'm guessing that multiple items are copied to the clipboard and one of them is the author's twitter link? :D I'll try
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by leakbang 4y ago
This is so awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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by leakbang 4y ago
Thank you for the advice and the good wishes :)
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by leakbang 4y ago
I evaluated a lot of languages before settling down on C. I have 2 main reasons why I chose C. One is that I wanted to pay homage to many great programmers who wrote industry-pushing software in C. The other reason was that I wanted to star
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by leakbang 4y ago
Thanks +1 I did't know Google Groups were still around!
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by leakbang 4y ago
That's a good insight! I'll definitely try to look for them on Github and similar platforms. Thanks!
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by leakbang 4y ago
The project is still very early on in development so we haven't decided how to handle extensions/add-ons. But it would definitely be neat and unique if the browser extensions are also written in C. But the idea behind the browser
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by leakbang 4y ago
Yeah the browser is open source, but the project is very early in development. After the project has a stable basis, we will fully embrace the FOSS mindset and make contributions open.
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by leakbang 4y ago
I'll look into Xt and Xaw. Thanks
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by leakbang 4y ago
This looks promising. I'll look into it. Thanks +1
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by leakbang 4y ago
This looks great! Thanks a lot!
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by leakbang 4y ago
The high level GUI toolkits that I looked at (GTK+ and Qt) were very bloated with features that would not come in handy for my use case, and frankly, they were difficult to use. Doing simple tasks in Xlib was simpler. But I did quickly noti

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