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Nope is a very quite good example, because one can compare it to Emacs, vim, Sublime Text loaded with a similar set of plugins. And it isn't an IDE, rather a programmer's text editor.
For decades people complained that Emacs was huge, bloated, etc. Now there are bigger web pages
Or native apps will go through a revival due to new languages, compiler optimizations and access to intrinsics and C libraries.
I know that a lot of old school code used very little memory due to everything sharing one set of libraries. I wonder if in the future, “installing an application” could be flipping a bit in a registry and your device being delivered a highly optimized monolithic system image.
I have Lazarus up and running... it's currently taking 32 Megabytes of RAM. It compiles in the blink of an eye, has one of the best possible 2 way GUI builders in the open source world, and I can reach back 30 years into the libraries I wrote in the days of Turbo Pascal 7/MS-DOS and pretty much use them intact. It amazes me how many people went with the .NET bloatware and all that follows it. Of course, 95% of progra…
You have to thank Borland's management for that. Delphi and C++ Builder are still around, but now only some lucky enterprise employees get to play with them. .NET Native and C++/CX were finally shaping up to be Microsoft's proper version of what .NET and Visual C++ should have been all along. However they are the most recent victims of the whole Reunion reboot, .NET Native now has uncertain future, while C++/CX got r…
Or native apps will go through a revival due to new languages, compiler optimizations and access to intrinsics and C libraries.
As an avowed skeptic of all things deep learning, I do wonder if there is a role for AI generated native code from some form of psuedocode. I know that a lot of old school code used very little memory due to everything sharing one set of libraries. I wonder if in the future, “installing an application” could be flipping a bit in a registry and your device being delivered a highly optimized monolithic system image.
I think that's pretty much what a good compiler is meant to do?
smaller binary images would be amazing though, especially when OS dependencies are required
Or native apps will go through a revival due to new languages, compiler optimizations and access to intrinsics and C libraries.
Technology still matters. It's not native vs not-native, there are many points along this scale. An app written in Swift on an iPhone should run faster than a similar app in Java on Android. If they run about the same, remember that the iPhone can do it with less memory and battery consumption. The Java Android app is more native than a React-Native app executing js.
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Technology still matters. It's not native vs not-native, there are many points along this scale. An app written in Swift on an iPhone should run faster than a similar app in Java on Android. If they run about the same, remember that the iPhone can do it with less memory and battery consumption. The Java Android app is more native than a React-Native app executing js.
yep, so the goal should be to compile everything down to light binary images the first time, and not require mobile devices work it all out at runtime.
Interpreter written in Assembly for fast startup, if the application was never executed.
Followed by JIT compilation to native code and when the device is idle, the PGO data collected by the JIT is used to produce a binary for direct native execution.
As of Android 10 those PGO files are uploaded to the stores and then if a similar device installs the application, they will get the PGO data as well and thus achieve a relatively fast result for their initial compilation.
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You have to thank Borland's management for that. Delphi and C++ Builder are still around, but now only some lucky enterprise employees get to play with them. .NET Native and C++/CX were finally shaping up to be Microsoft's proper version of what .NET and Visual C++ should have been all along. However they are the most recent victims of the whole Reunion reboot, .NET Native now has uncertain future, while C++/CX got r…
At least there is a free Community Edition now. It is one release behind (so doesn't have the latest goodness, eg the LSP server for code completion), but it does let you build apps for non-commercial use or pre-income startups for free, using Delphi/C++, the VCL, etc. Ie, if you want to encourage people to use tools like Delphi, it is much more open to indie devs than it used to be. Link: https://www.embarcadero.com…
So, as soon as devs realize their apps fit in 1GB or something these days where even mid range phones have 4GB of RAM, they see no reason to optimize further.
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You have to thank Borland's management for that. Delphi and C++ Builder are still around, but now only some lucky enterprise employees get to play with them. .NET Native and C++/CX were finally shaping up to be Microsoft's proper version of what .NET and Visual C++ should have been all along. However they are the most recent victims of the whole Reunion reboot, .NET Native now has uncertain future, while C++/CX got r…
At least there is a free Community Edition now. It is one release behind (so doesn't have the latest goodness, eg the LSP server for code completion), but it does let you build apps for non-commercial use or pre-income startups for free, using Delphi/C++, the VCL, etc. Ie, if you want to encourage people to use tools like Delphi, it is much more open to indie devs than it used to be. Link: https://www.embarcadero.com…
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