On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:05:44 +0200, John Found wrote: > About the C snippets - unfortunately, I can only read C and only if > it is not so complex. This way I simply can't provide C code snippets > at all.
The computing world does not revolve around x86. Open-source software regularly also runs on architectures like ARM and MIPS (both I think particularly relevant for an embedding-targeted project like FreeType), and even less common ones like PowerPC. You may not realize it, but ARM chips alone currently outship x86 by about 20:1. Or, to put it another way, more ARM chips ship per year than the entire population of the Earth. Even MIPS chips ship more than x86, making the latter only the number 3 computer architecture in the world. So with all this variety of hardware, writing things in assembly is usually not practical. Like it or not, C is the lingua franca of open-source development. Other languages are commonly found too (e.g. Python, which I used for my FreeType-related project), but C remains the common denominator. So take the time to learn C: think of it as an investment in your own future. _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
