With Rosetta2 they also can run x86 albeit one would assume that's slow. But probably still good enough for certain games.

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It always amazes me how well some developers can replicate the aged look of some ancient games :woot:
Not sure if my eyes could handle that without watering up. :dizzy:

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Quoting: Shmerl@aristorias: all of that is pretty wrong, but if you want proper sources and not myths, go find what actual developers say. I wouldn't touch C for big projects if Rust is an option.

Listen, I've been doing professional software engineering for the past 20 years and I therefore know very well what I am talking about ;-). Do you? Or maybe you got a language barrier there, I can't tell.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: M@GOidI wonder if Rust led to some performance advantages or disadvantages, in comparison to C. I saw some people hell bent in making everything in Rust, regardless if it is the best tool for the job or not.

I've seen some saying that Rust can provide performance benefits that are hard to reach in C due to easier way of parallelizing things and avoiding race conditions bugs. Rust compiler can do some optimizations due to safety guarantees that C/C++ compilers can't.

Yes all these myths are being repeated on the internet over and over.
The only thing rust can avoid is one special case during multi-threading, the data race. Race conditions are still very well possible for rather obvious reasons. Parallelization still remains a non-trivial task that needs appropriate skills of a programmer.
Also, C is for sure not the "competitor" when we are talking about game engines. There is no speed or other advantage to be expected from Rust. The point of this language is rather to avoid common bugs that are memory management related.
If you want advanced memory control, Rust does not even allow you to do that in a reasonable fashion, so this convenience comes with a price..

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I remember back in the days when the first version was released, in the forums every mention oif Linux was shut down immediately.
I wonder if all smaller non-combat focused FS developers consider the windows market lost due to the almighty FS2020?

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Well, only really if the data structures and formats are known or closely based known formats, otherwise a huge amount of time will be wasted on reverse engineering that. I wonder how much they had to figure out without specifications.
Regarding asset creation, there seem to be a lot of highly talented freelancers out there (thinking of all the elder scroll mods) who would be capable of competing easily with high end titles. But why would a team like that not ask for money instead? ;-)

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Quoting: g000hFinally we're here - The Year of the Linux Desktop. Microsoft have finally realised and they're porting their main applications ready for the transition.

Call me paranoid, but I am not entirely sure what the actual strategy behind this is and if it's desirable ...

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These fancy terminal applications eat up an non insignificant amount of CPU resources and don't do much more than ugly ones besides looking pretty.
Maybe it's time to invent a new way to draw in terminals...

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I would not only buy it to support Feral but also to enjoy it. But seriously. 53$ without DLCs and this is the sale price? But this seems to be how it is today if I look at Skylines or Stellaris ...
I'm not willing to jump on that train.

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: aristoriasCan the app finally support HiDPI? It is a real pain to use that thing on a 4K monitor ...

Steam client can scale it's GUI on 4K currently.

Oh indeed. It's not enabled by default. Thanks for making me check

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