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by pjmlp 26d ago
I only use their Web client, given that there is hardly any use for it other than some Webminars that insist in using Zoom.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
It is an ecosystem. At the botton you have the PTX bytecode. Followed by (from NVidia) compilers for C, C++, Fortran, Python JIT and more recently Julia JIT. Additionally there are third party support for .NET, Java, Haskell tooling to also
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Codeplay is Intel since the acquisition in 2022.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
All commercial APIs have this moat, which is why other than Carmack famously advocating for OpenGL, the large majority of other devs never cared, they implement an API agnostic engine, use the best API for each platform, and move on with th
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Note that Vulkan is only somehow better than anything else out of Khronos, because at least for that API someone is paying LunarG for the Vulkan SDK, and NVidia has a vested interest in now pushing slang as the shading language. The moment
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by pjmlp 27d ago
In Java, C# and C++ land, there are equally features that take several years to finally land. I think it is perfectly fine that Julia folks take their time as well.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Depends on how many dynamic libraries or OOP features get used, or the C++ frameworks inspired by Smalltalk that predated Java by a decade.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
MacBook Neo certainly does not address my needs with a 8 GB and 512 SSD for 900 euros. Additionally people shipping Electron crap also don't address my needs at all, everything that is Web based I already have an installed browser for
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Anything written in JS, TS, Electron does so because Microsoft and Google, two American software giants. For us to actually move away, European countries need to be willing to fully support the whole programming stack, and hardware.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Home computer games being written in compiled languages was never a blocker to mod them, if anything maybe more folks should improve their Assembly programming skills, and discover how the Demoscene was born.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Leave the CLR behind is what Windows team tried to do with UWP and .NET Native, basically the original idea of .NET as Ext-VOS when it was going to be based on COM. https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/win
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Two examples, PTC and Aicas commercial offerings, with real time GC, and AOT compilation for Java since about 20 years now.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
Plenty of banks are into that game nowadays.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
So while the ideas discussed are interesting, the origins are a bit off. Flow typing, is actually called Flow-sensitive typing. Contracts were introduced into the industry via Eiffel, which continues to be sold via Eiffel Software company.
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by pjmlp 27d ago
So basically any kind of capitalist endeavor that works with bank transactions.
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by pjmlp 28d ago
Well, they had enough time to refactor EF Core to use code generators. F# is improving on .NET 11, but still not fully there, as contrary to the rest of .NET, it is mostly community driven. Most Microsoft shops only consider Microsoft GUI f
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by pjmlp 28d ago
Indeed, it was what we used in digital circuits lab exercises back in the 90's.
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by pjmlp 28d ago
C++26 and C++29 are in the process of turning a lot of that UB into erroneous behaviour, basically what safer languages have been doing for ages. However, how many years it will take until those versions become widely deployed across major
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by pjmlp 28d ago
Definitely
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by pjmlp 28d ago
EF Core and F# still don't fully work, neither do the GUI frameworks, with exception of the buggy WinUI, mostly because it is all COM/WinRT underneath.
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by pjmlp 28d ago
Java as well, since 2000, one year before .NET public announcement in 2001. Java is an ecosystem like C and C++, there were always multiple implementations to choose from, some of them required money for the goodies like AOT.
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by pjmlp 28d ago
Some of the features have been added to JDK or GraalVM.
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by pjmlp 28d ago
Azul also has a similar feature, as added info.
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by pjmlp 28d ago
It works well enough for systems software written in C and C++, where Java still remains a niche option, even when it could deliver.
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by pjmlp 29d ago
I hate the traditional pissing context between Java and .NET ecosystems, because I work with both since they exist, and the whole reason .NET exists in its presence form was Sun's lawsuit, otherwise it would still be J++ alongside COM.
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by pjmlp 29d ago
COM is the main delivery mechanism for Windows APIs since Windows Vista. After the Longhorn reboot all the .NET based APIs were remade in COM, while WinRT introduced in Windows 8, adds a new base interface, replaces type libraries with .NET
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by pjmlp 29d ago
In general Web 3D is slower than native 3D APIs anyway, due to all the sandboxing and other restrictions. A OpenGL ES 3.0 application without any issues, might be super slow when ported to run on WebGL 2.0.
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by pjmlp 29d ago
Targeting XBox, Windows drivers in kernel mode, COM interop, structured exception handling, UWP sandboxing,
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by pjmlp 29d ago
Depends on how much effort, like on C and C++, you are willing to put into PGO metadata for the compiler and linker.
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by pjmlp 29d ago
Only as free beer, Java has had similar commercial offerings before .NET was created out of J++ lawsuit, like Excelsior JET.

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