Avid is not exactly transparent and it's extremely difficult to see what their long-term plans are. We can only speculate. The most convincing theory I've heard regarding Apple Silicon is that they may need a new hardware interface to work with Macs that lack expansion slots. Developing hardware is of course a much slower process than developing software, and it may take them several more years to get such a product out the door. In the meantime, Pro Tools has limited usefulness on machines that can’t talk to the hardware it’s designed to drive, so why bother releasing a port?
> Pro Tools doesn't get a mention in this thread, for the most part, but for better or worse it remains something of standard in audio post-production in the US. AAX isn't a bad re-imagining of what what RTAS/TDM-based plug-ins pre v10, and Avid aren't going to relinquish any control to third parties.
To everyone’s surprise (yours included, I’m sure) Avid is mentioned in the announcement as a company already involved with the project and working on using it for something. There’s a nonzero chance they could adopt it in Pro Tools and drop AAX.
The customer might want to buy a product, and the studio might want to make it, but isn’t there someone they forgot to ask?
Business models that are lower-risk and higher-return are systematically preferred by investors. Games are expensive to make. FromSoft has been successful enough to stay in business for now. They’ll always be in competition with studios that sacrifice product quality for profitability. Many studios literally cannot afford to do things their way.
The "no longer works" comment clearly refers to the business model, ie. ignoring the quality or popularity of the product itself and just looking at the balance sheet. The gambling (microtransaction) model is enormously more profitable than the classical "just sell a game" model.
Elden Ring was spectacularly well received and has sold millions of units, but it's "only" a game. There's no casino in the back, and therefore no gambling-related revenue stream.
The editor has been developed alongside the engine, and has been one of its distinguishing features, for quite some time. What they added here was the ability to run the game inside the editor, instead of having to switch between them.
The whole Haxe ecosystem flies under most people's radar, partly because it evolved from what was once the Flash ecosystem. It never really qualified for the kind of "NEW SHINY THING" announcement that creates hype elsewhere. A lot of people who have written loads of games are peripherally aware of it but have never actually gotten hands-on with it.
Lots of Russian companies are nominally headquartered in Prague. Reveal Sound is another example off the top of my head. There are certain advantages for companies that want to do business internationally.
You could approach this idea from the opposite direction: Put all essential jobs under military jurisdiction. There's real-world precedent illustrating some of the ways this would (and wouldn't) work.
> Why do you need opengl when you have support for D3D, Vulkan, Metal, OpenglES, and WebGL2? What amount of the market are you missing?
My take: Software isn't used exclusively on new computers.
I was just reading a forum thread full of complaints that a certain emulator won't work on 4th-gen i5 laptops. I want the software I write to be accessible to owners of machines at least as old as that, and I hope I can do that with Bevy.
Would you mind elaborating on what complaints you mean? Blender has had multiple major UI overhauls in the past few years, and changed a lot of basic command assignments in the process. They even moved selection from the right mouse button to the left button. That was the #1 complaint I used to hear all the time from everyone, and it was resolved a couple years ago. So I’m very curious what you’re referring to, and whether you’ve used it recently.
There’s all kinds of silly names they could borrow from stories hypothesizing its existence. Nemesis, Nibiru, Vulcan, and Planet X, just for starters. But in all likelihood it will end up as something much more anodyne.
According to other posts, this won’t support Vega graphics; RDNA1 is the absolute minimum, with RDNA2 being the oldest architecture officially supported. Guess we’ll have to wait for new APUs to see how this fares.
The “total flight distance” refers to the entire trip, eg. from Shenzhen to Albuquerque, but that involves multiple flights aboard multiple planes. Using Anchorage as a hub allows them to reduce the length of the longest flight.
For a few years now I’ve wished for this kind of thing. After I sketched out a couple of concepts, the approach that looked most viable was to build a folding keyboard case where the lid opens up into a tablet stand. This hugely reduces the scope of the design problem, because PCB mounting holes for mechanical 60% keyboards are more or less standardized, and tablets are obviously commodities. Even so, this is easier said than done. I didn’t (and still don’t) have enough experience designing things with hinges; I don’t know how to make things thin, light, easy to build, yet still strong enough to throw around; and I could never decide what to do about mice.
It seems like a general-purpose message that nodes can send to neighboring nodes, so they can be activated in response to input events, clock cycles, and so on. In other contexts you might call it a "pulse" or a "tick."
In fact, English dialects in the British isles have huge variety compared to those in North America, by at least an order of magnitude. It sounds counterintuitive at first because the differences in land mass and population size are the other way around, but the actual biggest factor here is the amount of time that these regions have had English-speaking communities. Give it a few more centuries and the rate of local dialect differentiation will start to catch up.
Joycons are the game controller equivalent of a split keyboard. If you're using a stock PS4 controller, your hands need to be close together, and your legs obviously can't be in the way.
For what it's worth, it's possible to use joycons with a PS4, if you have the appropriate adapters and chain them together just right.
You've made twice as many posts in this thread as mrDIMAS. You might not have realized it because you don't feel like you're exerting yourself. Nevertheless, you're vocal enough that a casual observer can see you as the public face of the project, and the picture you paint is not a constructive one.
In the past, you've said that you don't believe community-building skills are important. This tells me you have a serious misunderstanding of software development, especially open source software development. The disagreements you're having in this thread are not debates you can win on technical merits. You should fundamentally reconsider the way you approach them.
If you still can't see the problem with your behavior, I advise you to delete your posts and do literally anything else. Read a book. Download some cool free ringtones. Anything.
If you want to back an open source engine that’s already very mature and has a big community, you want Godot. It’s not written in Rust, but it supports an FFI API that allows you to write your game logic in Rust. The killer feature that sets it apart from pure-Rust engines is console support.
If you want to see a skilled team with strong leadership building on a carefully designed foundation, and you’re not afraid to wait years for the payoff, there’s Bevy, which has made a splash on HN a couple times over the past year.
If you want an engine that’s comfortably mature today, and you want it to be written in Rust for no particular reason, then RG3D is the clear winner.
I don’t remember a time when it was good. Their strategy was always about scraping user content from other websites (game guides, etc.) and leveraging SEO hacks to siphon off traffic and show as many ads as possible. Rebranding from Wikia to “Fandom” is itself an example of such a hack.
Common Lisp has always had pretty good support for compiling to fast machine code. Most people underestimate it, for at least two reasons. One is that it doesn’t have good standing in popular benchmarks relative to C, even with speedy implementations like SBCL, and the common takeaway from such benchmarks is that a language is either as fast as C or infinitely slow. The second reason is that the process of building standalone executables is less accessible than in other languages; even to people familiar with Lisp’s strengths, it’s kind of arcane, giving off the impression that deploying CL code in production is an unsolved problem. Also, Lisp is an old language family, and the quirks of Common Lisp in particular are weird and unfamiliar when coming from any modern language, even Clojure.
Worth noting, mg has long been included in OpenBSD as the default Emacs-like editor, and now plays the same role in Mac OS. (I’m not sure if Apple distributes the same branch as the one maintained in OpenBSD, though.)
The industrial revolution was as much a product of economics as technology. If wages for lower-class workers hadn't been nearly so high, the technology might have come and gone without making much of a ripple. In fact, there's an argument to be made that it once did exactly that. Steam-powered machines were known to the Romans, and seen as a stupid novelty.
Disclaimer: I don't know English history well enough to put together a better explanation, but I'm sure this has been the subject of a number of PhD theses. Maybe someone can point to a source that goes into better detail.
You've got plenty of scientists as company. There are cute names like WIMP and MOND for different types of hypotheses about what the heck dark matter actually is, or how to explain what's going on if it doesn't exist at all. Each of these is a huge headache for astrophysicists in one respect or another.