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[kpedersen]

Overall I am quite pleased by this. I prefer Vim to stay much more minimalist (like Vi) rather than have irritating auto indent / syntax highlighting...

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Well this is kind of it. Though Gtk and also the OpenGL bindings are certainly good, they were non-trivial to implement (i.e it wasn't a case of simply...

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I was really hoping Epic were going to look at something like this for their toolchain to allow for fast debug iterations and then standard Clang for...

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It generates "a good start" but for anything remotely complex you need to spend a large amount of man hours to solve.

Things l...

[kpedersen]

Native languages without a garbage collector (C, C++, Objective-C, Rust), certainly less so other than the issues of bindings.

Things like...

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I am not against it entirely, however rust interacting with raw C (i.e the rest of the Linux kernel) offers absolutely no safety guarantees over C++ (or...

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Agreed. Plus there was *so* much sodding marketing from Microsoft brainwashing the developers that "the only way is DirectX".
That coupled...

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Well C++ isn't in the kernel for a number of different reasons. Those same reasons are pretty much going to apply to Rust too....

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Really? I thought those days of writing non-portable win-games were behind us?...

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Of course I agree with this however in practice they end up focusing more on features they can monetise (i.e features that are fairly useless for the...

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Yes but of course they will disguise it by saying that they need to do this to access one stupid little niche gimmick feature and everyone will accept...

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I have not seen many enterprise spreadsheet tools being used at the same time.

I mean there was that one CSI episode... (https://www.you...

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Whoah.. Hurd isn't partying that hard yet. If I recall, Linux supported 64-bit, even in 1999. XD

But, what is popular now, has no reason...

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Ah yes, I remember them saying the same things about Linux. And now the Linux hardware support on the whole is better than proprietary alternatives. Especially...

[kpedersen]

How about we call the open-source version "LibreOffice". And the "enterprise versions of the office suite with paid support or the like"...

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This completely undermines the FOSS community trying to get open-source productivity tools into the enterprise arena (and replacing Microsoft Office)....

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This obviously makes sense. However I would actually love to see a graph showing where a CPU does start to overtake GPU.

For example which...

[kpedersen]

That is a very neat trick. Thank you! Performance is better than entirely using LLVMpipe!



And yet only Gnome is the one...

[kpedersen]

Yep but if you don't do superfluous rendering effects (i.e like most other desktop environments), then that is even more efficient, regardless of CPU...

[kpedersen]

The honest answer to that is it shouldn't be doing doing something with it. It is a desktop environment. It launches programs. Leave the GPU fiddling...