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811.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
70% market share, plus all the games that Proton depends on.
812.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yes, that is the favourite platform for game studios, and console devkits.
813.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yeah but that is the thing, for those that care about stability there are better options already. Starting by the hyped WebAssembly, which I reckonignise it is useful, only not as breakthrough as it gets advertised given how many bytecode f
814.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Folks around here that repeatedly mix Android with Linux, should also be happy that for whatever internal political reasons, they ended up not rebooting it with Fuchsia, or simply replacing the Linux kernel with Zircon. As everything else,
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
To put this into perspective for youngsters, that horrible Sony SDK was considered a wonder for its time, and what kickstarted the movement away from Assembly into C for home console development, as main language. Until then, only arcades h
816.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Doesn't compute with 30% on the road and 80% sales, also I doubt middle to low class cars are being sold with automatics. Unless those 80% new cars are EVs.
817.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Actually yes. Come to southern or eastern Europe, on plenty of those side road dealerships with signs on their windscreen, or parked in random places with a telephone number on them.
818.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Except you would never had Windows running on either PowerPC and SPARC. Remember, the very first Windows XP 64 bit release was on Itanium.
819.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Unless you are driving an EV, or lucky to own Audi, Volvo, BMW or Mercedes top class of vehicle, most people are on manual.
820.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Still plenty to acquire around in second hand.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yeah, however in that very specific scenario it isn't about any winning SPEC benchmark suit. Adding another workaround, shipping the JIT cache metadata alongside the program, and dynamically sharing it across all devices of the same ca
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Meanwhile there are others that use those features every day.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Game development, all those desktop applications that 70% of the market happens to use? Additionally some of us really enjoy Visual Studio with the .NET ecosystem, the C++ tooling able to do hot reloading, REPL, debug release binaries? Powe
824.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
> It has reduced memory overhead across apps and components and has optimized WinUI 3 to make built-in apps use less memory. Anyone with developer experience with the WinUI 3 mess, knows that until now this is only marketing that Windows
825.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yeah, the problem is that Apple doesn't acknowledge the convenience of Android/Windows ecosystem of 2-1 devices, as it would hurt their laptop sales. So the community comes up with gimmicks like these. Notice also how Macs lack to
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Which is why nowadays I never take calls if the prefix is from a country I don't have connections with, it is private, or doesn't map to any of my contacts. If it is someone that I actually know, they will be aware how to actually
827.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
The reasons are quite clear. Contrary to other bytecode formats, LLVM bitcode is not stable, even across minor releases. So anyone using it as bytecode format, like Apple, has to keep their own branch, and eventually it becomes too much wor
828.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Self modifying code is frowned upon on modern platforms, due to its security implications.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
> significantly less time to run your optimizer, Not necessarily, you work around this with JIT caches, which allow the optimiser not to start always from zero. Additionally your can also AOT compile, with or without PGO data. All modern
830.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
They do, this idea is as old as UNCOL in 1958. Regarding OSes still being sold today that use this idea, IBM i with Timi, Unisys ClearCase (started as Burroughs B5000 in 1961), Android, Java and .NET on embedded devices. Then we have the on
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Easy, distributed systems, coupled with folks that think they are the solution to what should be properly written modular applications in first place. Instead they deep dive into distributed systems, without ever learning about them and all
832.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
The same people are perfectly fine with Electron crap all over the place, they don't really care about overhead.
833.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Most RTOS for high integrity computing deployments are microkernel based, and the large majority of cloud deployments are running on top of microkernels, which is basically what a type 1 hypervisor ends up being, even more so, if it they ar
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
More like those that make copies of their physical keys at home, after having analysed dozens of key cutting machines for that exact purpose.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Linux desktop is still not caught up with Windows/Mac in regards to graphics, gaming, and laptops hardware support. Gaming, it is mostly Windows games via Proton, hardly any different from using MAME, FS-UAE, Amiberry,... Graphics, mos
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Windows is more than viable as development platform, ask Valve why they need Proton in first place.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
And yet it is written in Rust, a good evidence that compiled languages only help so much when the architecture isn't the right one, or bad algorithms are being chosen.
838.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Ah, but with re-writes you get to post those blog posts for Reddit and HN front page to drive traffic to the company's site, isn't that great?
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
> Few cars are manual steering, manual brakes, manual transmission. Tell me you are not in European or African continent without telling me.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Itanium only died because AMD exists, and due to various licensing reasons they were allowed to come up with AMD64.

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