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by therockhead 7y ago
Do you include web development in that ?
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by therockhead 7y ago
I know you said Rust was too unfamiliar but if you want the efficiency of C++ but in a safe language this is where I would start (and what I’m currently learning). For what it’s worth, the Rust web framework Actix has some of the best perf
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by therockhead 7y ago
>C++ on Windows makes heavy use of reference counting (which is a GC algorithm from CS point of view), via COM/UWP. Not sure if Ref counting is a good example here, as there is no runtime monitoring the object graph hierarchy and of
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by therockhead 7y ago
Indeed they have. What’s missing in some of the discussion here is the size of the application. For large applications like Office, a shared code base is often the correct strategy.
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by therockhead 7y ago
>On iOS the situation has gotten worse in that the interface between Swift and C++ has to go through C, so if you are using C++ you need a special interface layer, which is almost like the JNI situation on Android. I’m curious why you do
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by therockhead 7y ago
Part of npm is written in rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-npm-Whitepaper.pd...
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by therockhead 7y ago
Not sure I follow, could you expand ?
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by therockhead 7y ago
If it helps some folks focus on tasks, it worth a lot more than a few dollars.
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by therockhead 8y ago
"Age discrimination for older software engineers is real." Can't say I've seen this in Ireland, I found that good experienced developers are highly valued. Do you think it's worse in places like SF than the rest of
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by therockhead 8y ago
"I will only take it seriously when it officially gets adopted by the Android team. " I can understand this POV. Has there been any rumors that the Android team might adopted flutter ?
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by therockhead 8y ago
Historically the console manufacturers sold their consoles at a loss and only made profit on games sales. This might have influenced our perspective on the sales model.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Also Google also has two GUI technologies for Android, the original Java based one and Flutter, which replicates the material UI in full.
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by therockhead 8y ago
This is so true. Apple/Samsung make it look easy, with great reliable hardware every year. At work we had multiple google Pixel C tablets for dev reasons, and they were plagued with issues.
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by therockhead 8y ago
> For app development, there aren't many scenarios where C++ is really necessary, For cross platform work, C++ is hard to beat and no languages comes close when it comes to tooling. For example, I can debug from Objc into C++ using
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by therockhead 8y ago
What are the reasons for not moving? We are currently on C++ 17 and we need to support Windows, macOS,iOS and android.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Would be interesting to compare with Java.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Hmm, I do not consider an Qt app on macOS to be native.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Exactly, I know 20 year olds who act the same.
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Rust now, on average, outperforms C++ in the Benchmarks Game by 3%(reddit.com)
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by therockhead 8y ago
The only Qt app I use on macOS is Viber, it looks pretty bad and non native.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Was looking at Flutter recently and it has over 4000 issues.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Just tried the some of the apps and while it seems pretty promising, they are really mobile apps running on the desktop, in fact, it even says that on the website :). For example, the picker is a carousel wheel and not a native looking con
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by therockhead 8y ago
If they support desktop correctly (including accessibility, Left to right languages etc) I honestly believe this technology could be a game changer for cross platform development.
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by therockhead 8y ago
What’s slow, Spring boot?
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by therockhead 8y ago
>I don't even need to plug my device in to my machine This is common for most mobile development including Flutter.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Ikr >Flutter will enable full cross-platform development across iOS, Android, desktop, web and beyond with one codebase. I’ve seen desktop development mentioned a lot as well and was pretty excited, but right now it does not seem to supp
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by therockhead 8y ago
Is this not the situation when any new feature is added to a language?
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by therockhead 8y ago
For me this is by far the best feature of static typing.
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by therockhead 8y ago
Interesting, i found bindings only useful for the most basic of UI and not really worth the effort.
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by therockhead 8y ago
>These are pure iOS apps running inside of an iOS simulator designed to look like a Mac app. These apps have no access to the world outside of iOS. If you mean the current 4 iOS app running on 10.14, then i agree. If you mean project Mar

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