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Started by Pelle, January 10, 2026, 09:18:21 PM

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Robert

Quote from: Pelle on January 11, 2026, 11:02:49 PM
Quote from: alderman2 on January 11, 2026, 09:51:45 PMI don't think they're the ones you should lean on, but rather those who still program the basic language C.
Sure. The question is what this means in practice.

C on Windows in 2026+ will mainly be hobbyists (certainly for this project), where the latest and greatest isn't that important.
At my first real programming job in ~1985 I could have gone the Unix route (probably), but it wasn't much of an option back then... and 40+ years later it's still not an option...
After Windows and Unix there are roughly zero desktop operating-systems to choose from...

Microsoft have managed to mess up Windows quite a bit in recent years, focusing on irrelevant things (for enough people to matter), so it's not an obvious choice - except there are few other options. Now that I'm almost finished with ARM64 (still a potential flop), it's not clear what I should do. Write more examples? Not that exiting to be honest...

I'm not an innovator, and right now I can't find much inspiration anywhere...

Hi Pelle:

Thank you for your continuing amazing work !

Bored ? Nothing to do ? SWAR and AVX512 may offer some entertainment.

Check out Wojciech Muła's work. A good place to start is

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-09-17-avx512-foundation-base64.html

Lots of code at GitHub at

https://github.com/WojciechMula

Collection of Toys at

https://github.com/WojciechMula/toys

Thanks again for providing all of us tinkers with your tool for toys.

bitcoin

Hello, Pelle
How about creating some kind of library to simplify GUI application development? It's no secret that things are pretty bad in this area on Windows right now. C++ Builder was ideal, but it either died or became too complex. Qt is a heavy monster, and it's for C++ anyway. There's really nothing else. What if we made something like that for C?

TimoVJL

Multitarget project file would be nice feature  ;)
May the source be with you