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2911.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
In many European countries there aren't high salaries and above-average job security for developers, you are considered an office worker like everyone else, this isn't Silicon Valey over here, especially if you come from the South
2912.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
I feel the pain, and if I get unemployed now on my 50's, most likely I will do something else outside computing. Everyone that praises how they get more productive always forgets that means big corp now needs less of us. I work on ente
2913.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
There are plenty of debuggers for FP languages, it is no different from a language like C.
2914.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Depends on which JVM you are taling about.
2915.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Simulate was the word, not map 1:1 the exact experience. It isn't pretty, but one can try to achieve a similar approach. https://godbolt.org/z/TjPha3obs Failing that, there are always Clojure, Kotlin and Scala on
2916.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
K&R C, C89, C90, C11, C17, C23, C2y. Not counting compiler specific extensions from GCC, clang, Microsoft, Intel, NVidia, AMD, IBM, Oracle, Apple, Green Hills, TI, Microbit, Mikroe, and many more C compiler vendors that could have been
2917.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Because now we have a young generation nostalgic of their parents experience in the 1980-90's, and that includes the TUI experiences we were stuck with back in the day.
2918.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
I did not say otherwise, I said the culture is not the same towards safety.
2919.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
#include <stdio.h> unsigned int pack_rgb(unsigned char r, unsigned char g, unsigned char b) { return (r << 16) | (g << 8) | b; } unsigned int pack_rgb_arith(unsigned char r, unsigned char g, un
2920.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
A consequence of The Year of Desktop Linux Fragmentation.
2921.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Doesn't change the fact that Valve failed to create a business proposition to make native Linux a platform that is well worth the hassle.
2922.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Doesn't seem to affect the extent Java is used across the industry, including many workloads that in the last century companies would use C instead. Books like Yourdon Structured Method were mainly targeted to business C back in the da
2923.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Glad that we agree it is a Linux problem.
2924.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Steam isn't the only store in town. Actually, Valve could do an Apple and require native ports. Using Proton to run Windows games is no different of using MAME, UAE,...
2925.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Yes, and? Which game studios were targeting Solaris?
2926.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
It certainly used to be in Loki days, what happened is that there is no money in the game.
2927.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
I wish, I got the luck to do some C++ at CERN and Nokia Networks, but nothing out of the ordinary. Just happen to be a nerd with interests across systems programming, languages, graphics, that rather reads books and papers than watching du
2928.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
That conflates type classes with extension types, in type theory. Actually in modern Java you can simulate type classes approach with a mix of interfaces and default methods implementations. In C# you can have the experience more straightf
2929.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Exactly, and that is why after Rust's break into mainstream, several garbage collected languages are trying to mix advanced type systems with their approach to garbage collection (GC, RC, a mix of both, whatever). This is also not stra
2930.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Depends very much on the market. On my line of work we don't do Web servers from scratch, we use lego pieces like with enterprise integrations. Think Sitecore, Dynamics, Sharepoint, Optimizely, Contentful, SAP, Mongolia, Stripe, PayPal
2931.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
I appreciate Rust for making affine types mainstream, and having at least the C++ community start caring about security, even if half hearted. However I share your conclusion, outside scenarios where having automated resource management as
2932.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Unfortunately a whole new generation failed to learn the IE lesson, and are the first to complain when others don't follow the Chrome OS Platform wishes.
2933.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
XDK, GDK and Agility SDK are also part of API updates.
2934.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
That reasoning fails flat given the same studios have no issues supporting iOS, PlayStation, Swift and XBox, which are completely alien to what is used on Android NDK, APIs that are GNU/Linux compatible for 3D rendering, audio and asse
2935.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
C++ rules in the gaming industry, HFT, HPC, language runtimes. Speaking of which what do you think all the languages that build on top of GCC and LLVM, depend on?
2936.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Proton represents Valve's failure to make Linux gaming attractive to game studios. Not even those that have Android/Linux NDK builds, bother with porting to GNU/Linux. Besides blaming Microsoft, look inside into the endless r
2937.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Yes, however that wasn't a relevant feature for 1980-90's workstation market, like under which user the printer daemon would be running under.
2938.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Usually you don't do arithmetic with char in Java, this isn't C culture of anything goes.
2939.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
Yeah, even .NET is now plagued with AI, see AI dashboard on Aspire, AI components on Blazor, .NET upgrade assistant now being AI agent,.... VSCode hasn't yet been rebranded into VS CoPilot by pure luck.
2940.
by pjmlp 6mo ago
I miss them for doing bit juggling like file headers or networking packets. However I do concede writing a few helper methods isn't that much of a burden.

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