quelsolaar

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by quelsolaar 3y ago
I don't do it to make people think I'm doing a good job, I'm doing it because it makes me do a better job. Some people actually want to do a good job, not just do the minimal effort they can get away with.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
I'm not generally for formalized development process but i love this. I have for a long time argued that a great way to do anything is to think how you would give a talk about your work. If you plan on giving a lecture about your work,
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
the difference is that in windows if two applications load the same DLLs they don not just share code, they also share state and data. If a DLL has a global variable, it can be accessed by both applications. This means that you can use DLLs
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Volatile is "observable" and all observable behaviour is order dependent. (so for instance a volatile and printef can not be reorderd, because both are obeservable). Howqever this is ONLY in a single threaded context. This is why
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Actiually,I this case Windows is more capable than other operating systems. Sharoing a loaded library between multiple process has a lot of uses.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Because Windows lets a process link to a library that has already been initialized by another process, so the process cant share its mutex during initialization, becaus the initialization has allready happend. volotile gives you some decire
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
C11 did add _Atomic, BUT, they are not more portable than using volatile. In C11 any type of any size can have an atomic qualifyer. That means you can have a 50 byte struct that is an atomic. No hardware has a 50 byte atomic instruction so
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
No its not. All Objective C objects can be assessed using a C API. This C api is very hard to use, so tecnically its nicer C code wrapping a bad C API.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
no its not. I am currently working on a new game.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
We have considered parsing both headers and documentation in order to make the generated API prettier. This is the first release, so we want to see if there is interest, but yes there are lots of things we could do to expand the project (Au
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Shouldn't people have the choice you use what ever language they like and already know?
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Thanks! Mostly streaming and posting videos instead of writing now a days.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
How many Android devices are in service in the world? Whats the total power consumption of all Android devices? Shaving just 1% is probably a couple of coalfired power plants worth of CO2.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
This way you dont have to wrap by hand, and any time Apple releases a new API or makes a change you push a button and have a new wraper. Writing a wrapper also requires someone who knows Objective C. There are obviously things that could be
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Its absolutely crazy to me that both major mobile platforms don't have APIs that are available with bindings for all major languages. Forcing developers to use Java on android (A VM on a low powered platform), and ObjectiveC/Swift
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Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C(felixk15.github.io)
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Storing pointers unaligned and using memcpy to extract them to an aligned pointer, can be a performance gain, if it means less padding taking up valuable cache space.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
There are always uses for every feature, thats how you end up with C++. The question is if it is worth the implementation burden, the complexity, making the language harder to learn and read, and the potential intentional and unintentional
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
As a member of the WG14 I can tell you that _Generic does cause a fair bit of issues and complications in the language, and as a user of C i think _Generic is bad, because it mostly useful for confusing users about what code does so, Yes C
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Historically, the working class movement, did see work as honourable, and the capital as less so, because they lived of the work of others. There was a lot of pride associated with doing a good job and to provide for your family.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
I want to live in a world, where no one have to work in order to live a decent life, but I dont want to live in a world that has forgotten how fulfilling work can be. I live for my work because it is engaging, challenging, and is my way of
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Well, its broken in the sense that one part of the standard describes some functionality, and then an other part of the standard, says "Oh you can ignore that."
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
It is a feature that sounds like it promises to make something compile time but it doesn't. At the same time it has a bunch of limitations, that in no way reflects what modern compilers can do. Plenty of times you can write an expressi
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
I know, and its very broken.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Technically there is no "compile time" in C. Any part of the program can be computed at compile time or at runtime. Its entirely up the the implementation. The AS-IF rule in the C standard lets implementations do whatever they wan
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
I think, most designers of languages want abstractions, convenience, and clevernes. So for people who don't want that we have to cling on to C since there aren't other options ;-)
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Modern hardware is designed to map to C rather than the other way around. Turns out people want to buy hardware that can run existing software.
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
Funny that you would bring up survivor bias. I tend to think the oposit. If C is so bad, why does only C programs survive? Is issues are more visible, because it is so success full, and so much of the world uses C. One thing i have consider
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by quelsolaar 3y ago
> I do think you’ve identified a significant rift between those that prefer C and those who do not. I agree. I think the article is very right in identifying that C developers look at programming differently. I think that is a good thing

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