But, I also feel that the world is waking up out of whatever this malaise we've been in is.

The glorification of ignorance has passed the point of believability.Īnd yes, I'm a bit saddened that I spent the most productive programming years of my life chasing a dream that didn't pan out.

Now we have the perception that stuff like Electron is somehow bad, which is like saying that higher education or any other quest for a better future is bad. Which also undermined web development because vendors stopped solving actual problems in the browser and passed the buck to frameworks. I truly feel that software development lost its magic around the time that iOS and Android forced everyone to use Objective-C and Java. If I ever make another game, it will target Steam and whatever Unity or the engine of choice cross-compiles to, maybe Oculus and a few others.Īlso mobile ended up being a disaster on multiple fronts. Personally, I don't endorse any vendor lock-in. And it's not just us - the vast majority of the apps and games on my hard drive no longer run. The biggest thing is that Apple loves deprecation, so we found ourselves having to rewrite everything every 3 years or so, meaning it was all engine work and very little actual storytelling/art/plot/whatever. More info and benchmarks in the full article here.My partner and I tried for 20 years starting around 1992-ish and released several games that all ended up being basically failures. OS X Mavericks will deliver one heckuva a lot more than eye candy when it arrives in late October.” However, it’s just one bullet point on Apple’s list of advanced OS X 10.9 features that also includes Memory Compression, OpenCL 2, Timer Coalescing, System-wide Core Animation and more. He discovered that OS X 10.9 provides wall-to-wall v4.1 compatibility and significant performance improvements (vs OS X 10.8.4)”įairerPlatform reports, “Yes, OpenGL 4.1 support is looking good. “Rishi Kumar, who moonlights as an anesthesiology resident, compatibility and performance tested OpenGL on his hotrod Hackintosh running OS X Mavericks (DP1). “Tesselation, is a technology that allows more realistic shading of irregular objects, which has been available on other platforms for years,” FairerPlatform reports. Though Apple is typically tight-lipped on the subject, a range of informal beta testers have stepped forward to flesh out what OpenGL 4.1 means for Mac users vis-a-vis features and performance for OS X Mavericks users,” FairerPlatform reports. “One of the most-anticipated features in OS X Mavericks is OpenGL 4.1 support.

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