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Microsoft's timing was the worst. I think they announced this a year after Swift was already announced, but before Swift was open sourced. So Microsoft wouldn't be able to deal wit…

Main changes (since 5.4) declarations for global variables for-loop variables are read only floats are printed in decimal with enough digits to be read back correctly. more levels …

One of Lua's goals has been extreme portability, and the main implementation works on anything that has a C compiler, going to the extreme of compiling cleanly on C89, C99, and eve…

>> I really wish the Lua authors would add official types to Lua. > Never going to happen IMO. Adding static types would change the nature of the language completely, even more tha…

This should be plenty fast. SDL_RenderCopy generally should be doing things the 'right' way for on any video card made roughly in the last 15ish years (basically binding a texture …

I was referencing the historical motivations that led to where we are today. Yes, I was referring in part to the SDL_Render family APIs. These were insufficient to support things l…

This is a separate thing with the same name. Although both share some common ideas. The grimfang4/sdl-gpu is a separate library used with SDL, while the new SDL GPU API is directly…

The old SDL 2D API was not powerful enough. It was conceived in the rectangle sprite blitting days, when video hardware was designed very differently and had drastically different …

Where did you see that? I'm skeptical of that claim because I know some embedded uses of Lua strongly utilize pre-compiling to Lua bytecode so they can keep their hardware as slim …

As another extremely simple idea, in my personal experience, just using regular Lua table syntax for serialization and then pre-compiling it with luac so it could be loaded quickly…

> IMHO there wasn’t any reason to bother fiddling with the definition of BOOL. There were good reasons to change this to a real boolean. I think it was a WWDC, where kind of discus…

As a historical note, this was also a thorny issue for language bridges to Objective-C, going beyond just Obj-C++. I'm thinking of bridges like PyObjC, RubyCocoa, CamelBones, and L…

I saw a few presentations from the 280 North guys. It was clearly impressive what these 3 guys built. Learning from Cocoa/Objective-C/Interface Builder well, they realized they nee…

The food, including Cajun & Creole, crawfish, The French Quarter, Mardi Gras, voodoo, bayous, the music (birthplace of jazz), Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, salt do…

I don't know about outside the US, but the impression I have is, Star Wars toys have mostly been a universal bust, especially of the items that are from new Star Wars and not the o…

Thank you for identifying that. I felt a bunch of things were off in that screenshot. For one, I don't remember those colors. But I didn't trust my memory. But more importantly, si…

Lots of indies keep close track of Disney. Many of them have a good understanding of the cost structures and revenue splits, and every time somebody does a breakdown of the numbers…

I got to speak to a couple different Apple file system engineers many years ago over the course of many WWDCs. I think it was around the Leopard or Snow Leopard time frame (2007-20…

Gold is classified as a commodity. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the federal government agency that regulates the commodity futures and other commodity derivat…

As a teen, I tutored at my school's free tutoring center. Almost nobody ever came.

Wow, so cool. Brings back so many memories. This is a way better version. Torpedo targeting was such a drag in the original. I love the new targeting bar. I can't remember, were yo…

This YouTuber (Sasha Yanshin) did a scrutiny of the errors or omissions made with the different wallet checks in the report. This is the most detailed tear down I've been able to f…