Epiphany is a neat little project, but my understanding is it has performance issues bc it can’t use the GPU or something, like YouTube videos load slow.
What they’re referring to is that when you use tabs, you end up having some things at the end of lines have to be spaced over for alignment. Thus, you then have to turn on some way of seeing what stuff is tabs and what stuff is spaces and it turns into a big mess.
Hence why normal people indent with spaces instead of hard tabs
they already said they were Mac only because they used Metal for rendering
And you say:
Metal is basically the only graphics API on Mac
So they’re on Mac bc they need Metal, but they picked Metal bc they’re on a Mac? It’s circular and friggin weird man
Not to mention there are cross-platform wrappers that will pick from all three depending on system - some that are very prolific among Rust devs (Zed is coded in Rust) like wgpu, for instance. They could’ve used wgpu and supported all 3 from the get-go and it would be easier than doing Metal anyway!
And so picking just Mac and/or Metal first is suspicious.
There’s no reason btrfs shouldn’t work for every use case.
That said I think the slight performance gains of ext4 over btrfs make it worth sticking to ext4 for games. Imo it’s similar to as if you had you main system on an HDD but ran games off of an SSD; that’s how much faster it feels.
I would install games to a separate ext4 partition but steam to btrfs (for configs) in that case.
I agree. We’ve let the standards for what is good drop.
I think it’s mainly because the “just works” mentality has become infectious among engineers. It’s one thing when just starting out, but as you learn more and gain experience you should care more.
People do the designing and architecture and programming just because it all pays well, not because they have a love for the craft.
I think the second, slightly less strong reason is because many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway. Another skill I see less and less amongst my brethren.
This is already how the military works BC they lost the source code for ancient machines. They’ve gotta now hire reverse engineer researchers to help out