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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Fantastic demonstration of Cunningham’s law, but I think you missed the point.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
The Apple ecosystem of platforms take steps forward all the time, and they do a pretty good job at keeping binary compatibility with releases decently well while they are at it. They partly do this by only shipping C, ObjC and Swift platfor
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Nice. Maybe more desktop distros should build on android as a core. That could solve a lot of problems.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
tldr
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
exactly
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
> The "actual people" using Linux on the desktop are not running .so files off the internet. They do this all day every day when they use a little something called Steam or when they install Google Chrome. > I get what you&#
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
yes I think it's hard to beat the tide that is the web as a content and app delivery system. The web is also getting all the billions in investment from every massive faang.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Well, so I can only tell you as much as I know and understand. Some of this pulls in some outdated information too. So, JVMs and languages that abstract the underlying machine are always going to have overhead. The original interpreted stac
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Java is objectively terrible for writing good apps on modern personal computers. The one platform that did adopt it (android) had to practically rework the entire byte code and VM as well as the set of APIs for writing apps to make it work.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
On a long enough time scale we are all dead, and Linux doesn't exist. That doesn't mean that in the decades that computer software has to be useful to actual people that things have to suck this badly right now.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
The most underrated feature of windows probably ever.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Apple's actually quite good at this, but they do break things on purpose from time to time for reasons which they announce pretty publicly at WWDC when they do (32->64bit, deprecating GL, etc). So, for example a dev can target an ap
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Name one distro that ships with chrome out of the box? I dont even think ubuntu comes with a chromium browser. That means devs cant write apps against it and just hand out exes like they do on Mac and windows.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
As far as I understand, Windows solves this libc++ versioning issue using the side by side cache. I guess this is a little bit like flatpack.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Yet I still can't compile an app on some arbitrary release of some arbitrary distro and just run the darn exe on another and be 100% sure it will work.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Targeting only a hand full of frozen releases is not abi stability. Abi stability is when any app can be compiled off any release and run on any future release (and ideally older releases too).
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I agree. I recall a talk from Linux Torvalds on how bad the glibc folks break things and why he won't ship a binary version of his scuba tool. If the binary breakages start with the darn C lib, you're gonna have recurring problems
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Yeah exactly!
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
None of that core is standardized across even a hand full of distros.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I think the premise is wrong when there still doesn’t exist a core set of frameworks that are abi stable on Linux. On competing platforms there are way more frameworks out of the box (CoreImage, CoreAudio, CodeML, SceneKit, AppKit, etc) and
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
This should be the top comment
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Protonmail holds your key encrypted on the server. The key could be encrypted+decrypted by pin or by password.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I think the engineering on this project is a great step forward, I am not a lawyer but I think it’s possibly actually especially a step forward if Apple pulls the plug on this because it will add that much more ammunition to the case regu
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
No just folk lore from folks I work with. I used to work at Apple and now work somewhere where we do a lot of iOS work where there are a lot of former Apple people that worked on Foundation AppKit clang etc in another life.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Windows iTunes if memory serves.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I’m not sure if the authors comment that the rewriter isn’t used is accurate. It might have been used for the windows port of iTunes.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Whatever happened to the Internet where the person on the other end could be a dog? Why is this surprising to anyone and why do so many people even care about changing it? I really would hate to use this stuff if there were mandatory ID ver
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Crazier things have happened in this industry.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Exactly
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
This will be hilarious the day that the Twitter ip and trademarks are sold to meta for peanuts.

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