On 15/11/2017 3:15 AM, solidstate1991 wrote:
After all this flaming about Windows, mobile devices (I personally
prefer my desktop PC thanks to its "power", or at least what it used to
left, thanks to long unemployment time and lack of income, have a Nokia
Lumia which I cannot upgrade to W10 due to BS reasons, and I think
open-source architectures will kill off the proprietary ARM and x86 in
the long run, not the mobile platform the desktops/laptops(funny story
is that my mother tried to ditch desktop multiple times for the mobile,
then got back, same happened with one of my cousin after he realized
that pay-to-win games suck)), can we get back on rails? While its true
that Windows and desktop is losing its place, we need to support Windows
on a much higher level as long as there's a large number of PCs out
there. Game development would highly benefit from D thanks to its
all-in-one approach, probably could cut a few millions off from AAA game
development. Also audio-engineers are switching to Windows, thanks to
Apple scrapping the IO on their products (I'm also a digital artist,
have to stay with Windows due to drivers, software, and ease of use).
Walter Bright: What's the licensing state of DMC and OPTLINK? Can it
made open-source? If yes, we should patch in a COFF32/64 support, maybe
even port it to D for easier development. I can spend some of my time
working on the DLL support if needed.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/19
