jcden

13 karma · joined August 17, 2018

jcden··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets

Friends don’t let friends use Electron

jcden··on WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS

All else being equal, native apps will always be better. Higher performing and longer lifespans. It’s like Winamp; simple, extremely fast, 21 years old and still kicks the shit out of modern music apps. Of course, if you can’t write well in native you shouldn’t.

jcden··on C++20 Ranges

Are you new to programming? There are entire industries using only C++ for their software (like game industry)

jcden··on Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite

None of the above methods are used for testing. You use boundary testing, branch testing, equivalence partitioning etc. Random data is not a good method of testing.

jcden··on Show HN: Don't code your UI, draw it

C++ is the industry standard for the game industry. How is it obsolete?

jcden··on Is the Touch Bar a gimmick? Two years in, I can answer that

MacBook Pro is a piece of dog shit. Why would you pay $2000-3000 for a computer that has the performance of a $900 PC? Even the brand new top of the line Mac book pros only have a AMD 555x gpu. That is completely unacceptable for the price. They get utterly and completely destroyed by cheaper PC's in virtually every benchmark.

jcden··on Airware is shutting down after raising $118M

Almost all those things should have been built in C

jcden··on Java is still available at zero-cost

JavaScript is slow as hell

jcden··on Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?

"Having been a plumber for 10 years and now a quantum physicist"