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Xorg goes against Unix philosophy, Linux goes against Unix philosophy, GCC goes against Unix philosophy. Oh, don't even get me started on Emacs. Unix...

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I wonder how many distros even compile with the floppy driver, given most distros don't even ship/support an x86 version anymore.

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Welcome to Linux

Where the rendering backends are made up and the hardware acceleration doesn't matter.

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Not a great analogue, since Pythons scripts did not adapt, and instead there are simply two simultaneous versions of Python, and there always will be,...

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This is what tiered compilation is for....

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Apple already doesn't allow JIT'ers to work on iOS, and .NET on UWP must be AOT compiled as well. If this trend continues, JIT compilers might become...

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Designing software isn't about not writing bugs, it's about planning everything out, the design and tooling, so that the likelihood of writing/designing...

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You can still implement safety in an unsafe language, you just have to be very, very careful about verifying that it's completely safe. NASA already has...

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> SixtyFPS is GPLv3-licensed but with a commercial license option.
Oh, so it's useless. Good to know.

Isn't it lovely when a project...