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Developing for the console seems really harsh. Somewhat related, an indie company managed to get a fighting game out on PSN and XBLA. It just got an update on PS3, but it can't get…

Oddly, Windows 7 Pro does have DVD support out of the box.

Wayland can eventually fill the role on Linux perhaps. X11 is built to run on many more operating systems. This is my main issue with Wayland. Whence portability?

Wayland isn't going to replace X11, it's going to be an alternative to X11.

Not mentioned among the major features: Windows builds have finally moved to Visual Studio 2010.

Glad to hear this. Digia has treated Qt very good.

I'm not a fan of KDE, but I do like Qt. Qt seems to suffer from kitchen sink syndrome, but the core GUI API is well designed. If someone did for Qt what XFCE/LXDE did for GTK+, I t…

Sounds about right. I think a lot of developers buy a MacBook with the intention of dual booting to Linux, but end up just sticking with OSX.

Yes, Qt still uses moc. I leave it up to you to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I found it very hard to read this. The whole time my brain kept getting distracted by how bad the fonts look.

He did. From http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html : > ...I consider it a pretty good set of rules for safety critical and performance critical code. If you do embedded sys…

Whoa wait, we are really supposed to replace X with something that only works on Linux? Way to give BSD guys the middle finger.

I'm not C++ savvy, but I know from reading Google's C++ style guide that they also disable exceptions. The guide leaves it at that and doesn't say anything more about how to deal w…

I'm surprised they think developers would be interested in this. Having worked with Dell in IT, you couldn't pay me to use anything they put their name on. Dell have a bad reputati…

There are some Good Parts to C99/C11, most of them adopted from Unix and Plan 9. Not surprisingly, most of the bad parts are all inventions. Read the link to dmr's comment again. H…

Unlike ICC, MinGW's gcc.exe is not a drop in replacement for cl.exe. It's a separate compilation environment. The headers are different and often out of date compared to the Window…

Good for Microsoft. If they think something is standardized garbage then they shouldn't have to use it. C99 and C11 look like mutants compared to C89. Too many bad design decisions…

From the Dr Dobb's link: > The C99 standard is interesting because it was created at a time when a lot of people on the previous committee went away and did other things. And it wa…

> What part of that process requires UTF-16? JavaScript doesn't require UTF-16; it just requires Unicode. You could use UTF-8 in your JavaScript implementation as well. Actually, J…

Thanks. Those specific complaints from the link seemed more like quality of implementation issues of typical ECMAScript editors vs Adobe's ActionScript IDE. I can live without type…

Are there really no JavaScript-capable IDEs out there that support code completion, jump to definition, re-factoring, etc? I don't see anything in the language that would preclude …

Speak of the devil. http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2012/n334...

I bet a lot of folks under the Iron Curtain would have loved to have had access to these documents back in the day.