Oracle users are masochists.

It was definitely DDJ.. back in the early 90s, right? I once asked Walter Bright (creator of D) if they were related and he told me it was just a naming coincidence.

I prefer using the command line.. but it is nice to be able to use a TUI to select the staging files, so this works out perfectly.

One of the people reverse engineering the M1 GPU for Asahi Linux is a catgirl vtuber: https://www.youtube.com/asahilina

State machines always make me think of the Disk II controller on the Apple II. It uses a state machine to implement reading and writing sectors to disk.

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/11/12/the-amazing-disk-ii-controller-card/

Depends on your language.

https://flutter.dev/

https://fyne.io/

https://slint.dev/

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

What are you talking about? Compilers can and do flag undefined behavior as errors. I recommend you read up on the documentation of any compiler.

And I recommend you read Chris Latter's essay on UB.

https://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_14.html

Where he gives plenty of examples of UB resulting in the compiler optimizing away safety and introducing security vulnerabilities silently. In part 3 he discusses the efforts clang has made to improve on this.

He then went on to make Swift and says this: "Undefined behavior is the enemy of safety, and developer mistakes should be caught before software is in production."

and

"UB is an inseperable part of C programming, […] this is a depressing and faintly terrifying thing. The tooling built around the C family of languages helps make the situation less bad, but it is still pretty bad. The only solution is to move to new programming languages that dont inherit the problem of C."

It violates the principle of least surprise. You don't expect the compiler to delete your bounds checking etc.

The way c and c++ define and use UB is like finding an error at compile time and instead of reporting it, the compiler decides to exploit it.

Back before it was awful, sourceforge required your code to be in CVS and then later svn.

Should focus on getting rid of undefined behavior.

Interesting. A year ago I was looking for something exactly like this for distributing data between multiple servers. Everything required a ton of overhead or was too big to use. I ended up just using json. I did discover that Brotli can compress 3 gigs of json down into just 70 megs nearly instantly.

One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples, jq is invaluable in those instances.

Interesting. I didn't realize Wayland was so extendible. I wonder if that means we can do a konfabulator clone.

There was a ton of software sourcecode posted to the comp.sources.unix usenet group that I wanted to check out. The problem is all that software was in shar format, and there was no way to extract those files on msdos. I found Yggdrasil Linux on CD at a local software store and decided to check it out. Been using Linux in one form or another ever since.

Isn't that what Gists are for? https://gist.github.com/

A decade ago I reverse engineered the Macventure game engine, allowing you to play Shadowgate and Deja Vu etc on modern oses. The current copyright holder then paid me to iron out the rough edges and create the official ports currently on steam.

Gdb doesn't work at all on m1 macs

I suppose.. but when you have frameworks like Angular that update every 6 months, even the best efforts for backwards compatibility fall by the wayside.

Focus more on stability in terms of apis. We can't be rewriting our apps constantly because they keep updating frameworks every year.

C. I've been programming for over 30 years and it's the only language to survive. Imagine if I was asked this question 30 years ago and picked perl or Pascal, I'd be screwed today.