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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Who uses WinRT besides Microsoft employees, or APIs that are only available in WinRT like MIDI 2.0? Regardless, WinRT is COM. It only adds IInspectable as additional interface alongside IUnknown, and .NET metadata files instead of type libr
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Documentation....
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
COM is heavily used in Windows today, no need for past tense.
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Which shows how many devs never learnt about Windows development past Windows XP, given that COM is nowadays the main API delivery mechanism, as they redid Longhorn ideas in C++.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Which is also used by C++ Builder. In a tragic way, given the prevalence of COM in Windows, especially since Vista, someone at Microsoft should offer a few Delphi and C++ Builder licenses to the teams responsible for doing COM tooling. Beca
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Unfortunately no one is going to rewrite LLVM, GCC, CUDA, DirectX, Metal, SYSCL, V8,... into something else. Same applies to C and UNIX/POSIX, OpenGL/Vulkan/OpenCL/NVN/LibGNM(X),... Thus analysers and language subse
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Going rogue? Oh well, just for kicks, "By the time Skynet became self-aware, it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software in cyberspa
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Probably, but note that Google says they are they main customer anyway, and it is an experiment above anything else. Anyone that can reach out to Rust, Go, Java, C#, whatever, should do that preferably. There are also some efforts to tame e
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
SOM predates COM, and is even cooler, as it supported class inheritance, metaclasses and Smalltalk as target language. On OS/2, Smalltalk enjoyed a role similar to what would be .NET and VB on Windows. Sure you can use delegation with
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
OS written the C, which is what many overlook. If you are on e.g. z/OS you would be using ILE, Integrated Language Environment, on ChromeOS JS/WASM, on Android either DEX or JNI,...
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
No mention of the much more mature Chapel, with industry support, given the domain?
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
No, neither does the C standard. With exception of Swift, D, and bytecode based languages, the ABI is left to the vendors. For those that think ISO/IEC 9899:2024 PDF has anything related to ABI, the actual ABI used by C compilers, is t
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Not only, there is also XPC and IO/DriverKit on Apple, Android IPC, D-BUS, FIDL on Fucshia,.... Also C ABI also does not exist, people keep mistaking the ABI of their favourite C compiler with the OS ABI, which only overlap if the OS w
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
That is mostly an US SV thingie, in many European countries, it is a comfortable office worker salary, just like the other folks on the office having jobs with any kind of degree above standard high school.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
C++26 reflection?
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
PlayStore gets you on Android, ChromeOS. WebOS is anyway only relevant for TVs, and any PWA will do.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Visual Studio surely, as they had a collaboration with Microsoft using Windows CE for the Dreamcast. https://jacobfilipp.com/MSJ/directx.html "What happened to Windows CE on the SEGA Dreamcast?" https:/
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
There were plenty of bad games back then, and worse, you only had the cover to guess what the game was all about, if you were lucky maybe some computer magazines with a proper review, and if even more lucky maybe a demo on a cover tape&#x2F
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
As oldie, I only watch some console podcasts for drama entertainment. As you pretty well point out, gaming in general is doing great, it is only the gaming version of movie blockbusters that is going down the drain. They take years to make,
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Which is why, The Year of Desktop Linux is the fragmentation it is on, versus using Android, ChromeOS or WebOS.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
This is exactly why it is a well built OS, versus the lack of imagination of FOSS community to move beyond copying UNIX over and over again. Yes, it has a few warts, still much better than fitting UNIX with X Windows on a phone, with a C SD
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
You are missing a few steps there. First came Project Treble, where Android was refactored to actually have a stable ABI for drivers, by pretending Linux is a microkernel, all drivers run in userspace, use Android IPC to talk with the kerne
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Apple's taste during the 1990's almost killed the company.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Apple the company that was rescued from bankruptcy 30 years ago due to a miracle, yeah taste gets nowhere without a big bank account. Lets see if they will mostly sell iPhones to the end of their time now.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yes, which is I am so bullish into having this industry getting liability like everywhere else. Cybersecurity laws are a good start, however thanks to lobbying it will still take decades.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Pity that Android doesn't run any Linux userspace application, unless one makes use of workarounds, like termux having to fit within the constrains of Android sandbox and NDK limitations.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Very interesting article, I wasn't aware of the Am29000.
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So you only play native Linux games I assume, nothing of that Windows crap via Proton?
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So it is an OS or a kernel?
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
VSCode has plenty of C++ and Rust extensions to work around Electron limitations, which are then used as WebAssembly plugins on the browser version, though. It shows the engineering effort that the team puts into it, which is why it is one

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