Honestly "C + SDL + Lua" is basically the best, most sane"full stack" I have ever used.
IMO it allows for the perfect level of abstraction.
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can your React do that?? didn't fackin think so dabs mockingly
How I love mista azozin...
I'm still waiting for the day we get a proper alternative to JavaScript.
If I had to make one, it would have a Bash-like syntax
I moved from Visual Basic (3 no less!) to C because I needed to optimize the performance of a software synthesis (like, sound synthesis) application I was developing at the time (mid-1990s). It boggles my mind to this day how much fucking work you had to do just to create a simple window in C. It instantly made clear why UIs at the time were so bad and I went back to Visual Basic for the UI with a compiled C DLL to do the heavy lifting.
There's no excuse for why UIs are still so bad today.
The "excuse" is more or less the 20 or so replacements that have been made and died. I think Microsoft alone is responsible for 5 over the life of Windows.
We've more or less kinda settled on HTML only because it's already wide spread. But it's not perfect so more standards for the standards pile. Don't worry, react will end up buried by the next thing on the pile eventually.
We’ve more or less kinda settled on HTML
It's funny, one of the modern UI glitches that I hate the most is when a long bit of text is just truncated with ellipses instead of the whole thing being shown and you have to hold the mouse over to get it in a tooltip, or shudder actually click on the thing. HTML is great at word-wrapping and allowing the whole UI to "flow" with variable heights and widths as necessary - and yet that is never allowed to happen in apps.
this is like when I built that web server in x86 assembly lol.
I once write a web app in C, but this terrifies even me.. though Tsoding, the guy in the video, did that, too..
My favorite so far is either my websever in bash or my webserver in Common Lisp. my webserver in C was fun too though
This. This project drained my soul lol.
I bet that thing was fast!
yeah, in one sense it was lol.
Who do you think is better at writing assembly? @[email protected] or a modern compiler with hundreds of contributors.
It’s definitely not me
Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you're 99% as good as you can be by using the sendfile() system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing the Length header is a stat() call.
If you're not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.
Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.
I mean, just because you implemented something in a low level lang, it doesn't mean you're gonna have the fastest implementation. Even in high level langs, there's usually heavy optimization involved in things that are done all the time (e.g. web servers)
React Native
laughs in Vaadin
This reminds me. I got a search engine to build.
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