sjw, 2 months ago

@lanodan is haiku good yet?

lanodan, 2 months ago

@sjw :shrug_kon: depends on what you want.
I'd say it's a pretty cool OS and among alternative ones it's a rare one where you can have a modern web browser working (they ported WebKitGTK and GnomeWeb).

lanodan, 2 months ago

@sjw In fact I got quite used to seeing HaikuPorts on repology.org but looking through the package manager…
There's webkit-gtk, vim, vis, elixir (yeah), …, a bunch of video games, …
(And curl, git, … are there by default)

At least for me I think I really should consider it as a supported target similarly to {Net,Free,Open}BSD.

sjw, 2 months ago

@lanodan I could probably daily drive it on my laptop but I feel like it'd probably kind of suck.

allison, 2 months ago

@lanodan @sjw it's a bit quirkier than all of those systems in terms of the edge cases but by no means unusable, honestly, probably the most daily drivable true "hobbyist" operating system and it isn't even close

sjw, 2 months ago

@allison @lanodan does it have GPU and hardware accelerated video decode support yet?

Suiseiseki, 2 months ago

@sjw It will never be good as it isn't under a freedom-defending license and is written in sepples.

sjw, 2 months ago

@Suiseiseki
https://bae.st/media/4993c239c3951fa317d9383f7e12f546c66ba06074f78ed5916eb6fa77f8f271.png?name=i_will_never_use_sepples.png

Suiseiseki, 2 months ago

@sjw That C looks okay except for the unguarded malloc() and 3 cases of syntax errors.

maxmustermann, 2 months ago

@sjw @Suiseiseki Trivia: Uncle Bob and his coworkers invented something like OOP on accident when they distributed code certain code to certain chips. OOP also shut down all work on the Problem of creating a truly distributed system. The latest approach I heard of was using the base design of the Internet as template.

sjw, 2 months ago

@maxmustermann @Suiseiseki OOP was a mistake