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Thanks so much for the shout-out and support! If you want more updates, make sure to also follow the lead developer, https://x.com/poiitidis , and another rock-star from our commun…

I hope this is a joke, considering I literally mentioned in the post: Save files sizes are substantially larger, world draw distances are greater, textures tend to be higher resolu…

I do totally agree that I should've just made an engine and the toolkit and just released it as that, but it wouldn't have been "THEY should've constrainted the scope" -- as there …

Half fake news, half true. I was king of scope creep, but I was also the engine and tools developer... Does it LOOK LIKE the engine and tools were the ones bottlenecking progress, …

Uh, for the record, like... I've been more than open about my past history with ES, and have spent the last 2+ years straight giving back to the Dreamcast community, supporting eve…

Pretty much true. Not only that, but if you look at the Kickstarter page, what exactly was my job? Engine programmer. Not gameplay. Th engine is pretty much complete, as are all of…

Jokes do tend to be inane...

Haha, somebody knows their Objective-C!

^ This, 100%. GTk's GObject type system which powers the entire GNOME stack is a similar object-oriented C type system with a virtual table pointer as the first member of an object…

I'm a huge academic fan of what GTk has accomplished (thanks to their GObject type system), and as much as I know the C89 crowd who thinks macros are all evil probably abhor this k…

Exactly. Amen. GTk is the shining proudest most epic achievement of object-oriented C programming, and they still enjoy massive benefits in terms of being able to interop with ever…

Reminds me a lot of the magic that is the Objective-C runtime. Fantastic paper. Thanks for sharing.

"Thankfully" he says. Now witness as Rust struggles to produce a compelling widgeting environment that isn't Qt or GTk bindings to other languages which support OO constructs. Witn…

It's just the latest hipster language trend. When OO was new, structural C was evil. When functional programming happened, everything before that was evil... Because, yes, sharing …

This book is an absolute classic. I came from C++20, using concepts and constraints, doing a lot of compile-time metaprogramming and shenanigans, and I set off on a quest to rewrit…

This. The entire GNOME stack is based on a steroided-out C-based OO type system in the same vein as the OP's PDF... and it's actually how it gets bindings to every language ever so…

I'm the author of the libGimbal project linked to there. It's a massive object-oriented C codebase with an entire cross-language type system that was inspired by GTk's GObject, Mic…

There are a few niche reasons. The entire GNOME/GTk stack benefits greatly in the realm of language interop from being C at its core. This is why it easily has bindings to every la…

I'm not porting MacOS. I'm porting just the Foundation layer, and I'm not using Apple's implementation, I'm using GNUStep's. But hey, maybe having a core, foundational framework wr…

Wow, thank you for sharing! Dude, clicked your profile links, and wtf? Objective-S looks awesome! I had never even heard of it, but creating a more easy-to-use language ontop of th…