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Cool, but.... no Ada, Pascal, or Delphi...

R.I.P. : (

I don't think I like this trend of web browers having so much power over hardware - seems like a huge vulnerability.

Also, how much memory do these changes involve? With these chromium updates every single elektron app I use will be affected?

I am not arguing for them to continue their status quo, I am saying that without competition Apple/Google have no incentive to improve.

We would all be better off if Apple lowered prices and we got alternatives. That's a win/win even if most users don't use the alternatives.

Lets replace "Apple" in your response with AT&T. "You think you know better how to run a successful phone service than a company with the most successful one?". No, I don't exactly, but I have enough common sense to see that they are doing wrong.

And sure they have the most successful (and only) app store compared to the only other app store.

But yea fragmentation/choice is just awful and without a doubt will lead to a less rich experience... totally

Your reply comes off as very authoritarian and controlling. If you like the app store then you should have the choice to use it. What you are saying is that devs shouldn't have access to other options because you dont understand why they wouldn't use the perfect one already there.

Apple has more than enough money to both protect users and actually help developers - it doesn't need to squeeze them. For example, why isn't it a one-time fee for the initial scan? Why must they take a share of every purchase.

Without competition (like gasp competing app stores) Apple will continue to be negligent to devs and ban applications that compete with their services.

For example, the Apple watch without cellular cannot use Spotify in offline mode since that would compete with Apple music. My girlfriend and I had to find this out after the purchase and completely defeated the purpose of buying the product for her workouts.

We are at a state where these tech companies have the same value as countries and entire stock indexes. It is obscene, and yet they make their devices more locked down, harder/ILLEGAL! to fix by paying off politicians both to not enforce laws and to write them in their favor at the expense of smaller competition.

The merger of state and corporate powers is complete. We live in a fascist world with surveillance that Stalin could only dream of.

So yea, a bit "unfortunate"

Yea and Google doesn't do the same sh*t as Apple? Looking at it this way, it is impossible to avoid abusive and increasingly vague and restrictive store policies..

You think there is a chance in hell Apple and Google are not going to continue the trend of restricting devs and taking bigger profit shares for the "privilege" of being in the store? Its only going to get worse. Good for them for standing up.

But it is impossible to bypass the store for any normal person.

Think about it, you are a normal person who wants to continue to use an application and for some reason the dev has been kicked out of the store (this often happens and the devs often have no idea why or how). You would be frustrated no?

Not to mention the mental stress of the poor devs which are subject to inhuman automated responses, neglect, and abuse by Apple/Google. Apple/Google is essentially shutting down small businesses arbitrarily and remorselessly. The only way action happens is if the dev somehow gets enough attention on sites like this that Apple is forced to act.

These tech monopolies have MORE than enough money for a customer/creator/dev service department - they just don't care, or, perhaps, maliciously use the lack of one to control their platform: "Oops sorry, you have been talking to our super-smart infallible AI, we don't know why its acting this way, but we are sure its right! You have one week to fix the issues - have a nice day!"

Another reason to move from CA...

Anyone else sick of seeing careless Tesla drivers swerving around on autopilot?

Hmm, I suppose it's different this time?

Just watch not to inhale the ash. It is probably very toxic ; )

Nice to see projections and figures for these companies but...

I wonder when reality will hit these non-earning tech stocks. The P/E ratios are just absurd. Surely the FED can't hold the dam for much longer?

Zoom is electon based.

Without Firefox though everything is Chrome.

Skype, Zoom, Slack, Discord, Chrome itself, Safari, Edge, Opera, VS Code, Atom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCfNhyIo_U

We need to encourage competition even if companies continue to spew this kind of cringe. Firefox is the last holdout.

Good luck Mozilla, you're our old hope.

Imagine the system requirements of this versus the original OS ; )

Cool toy though!

It is an Ada compiler with modified syntax. The GNAT Ada compiler is used by defense contractors, air traffic controllers, and NVIDIA for some of their internal research.

Its production ready.

As the author of a programming language ; ) I find this article very inspiring.

I just want those new to programming to understand the joy of systems and simple graphics programming like in the ol' Turbo Pascal days!

http://www.adapplang.com/

You guys think Rust is good - you should check out Ada++ (you'll have to build GCC yourself though)

http://www.adapplang.com

Well, being in the security field I would want to know if that light is software or hardware controlled.

Just what we need - more uncaring ECMA programmers putting out substandard, massively slow, non-native code...

The masochist in me wants to continue to see these giant tech corporations get bigger and bigger, so that next time there is a tech bubble we get to watch them squirm under their own weight. Or, perhaps, finally lead to some anti-trust enforcement...

They did it for control and convenience at the expense of literate computer users.

The Windows 10 UI is written in TypeScript, Edge is chrome, Chrome is chrome, Safari is chrome - it makes hiring and training easy when you can just make every API a grey gelatinous chunk of ECMA script with hamburger menus. It also means the "app" is always sandboxed unable to do powerful things like universal push-to-talk.

The color and joy of using programs has been flattened out in the name of consistency.

Write once, run poorly everywhere. It's a lazy programmer's dream ; )

https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32

So why did they force everyone else to use the Javascript version instead of only Linux? Why didn't they just improve the Linux version.

I use Skype everyday for work and my quality of life is noticeably different in a bad way :(

Plus, my poor laptop is now forced to run Skype, Zoom, Slack, Google Docs, and Discord. Its turned into a cooktop...

It also abstracts out a ton of third party controllers

So apple reinvented SDL and made it less portable?

When everything is chromium there is no competitive advantage for any of these chat applications. For example, before, Skype used to be based on the Qt framework and it used less resources and actually had more features - like universal push-to-talk and better integration into the OS.

Welcome to the future - lets Javascript all the things... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCfNhyIo_U

It seems like these new Macs might as well be phone with a keyboard in the way they treat their software and "pro" consumers taking away options when screen real-estate exists to empower the mouse user.

Wake me up when they use less glue to hold their computers together : (

It seems like these new Macs might as well be phone with a keyboard in the way they treat their software and "pro" consumers.

Wake me up when they use less glue to hold their computers together...

I see your point, personally if I go to a conference, stadium, or concert I am not there to look at my phone or answer email though xD