Excellent post. I don’t have much experience with C but it was fascinating to read about the design decisions going into it and how even back then, backwards compatibility was very important for newly developed tools

I worked with a guy who brought 10k lines of code from various jobs over the years and slapped it all into a single commit second day on the job.

It was all VB.NET and looked like it was written in VB6 days because it was reimplementing functions that the .NET framework already provided us. And there were quite a few single line functions that did the simplest things like addition of two variables.

However my favorite function of all was IsMarksMachine() because it was used as a prod/dev switch. I ran into bugs testing the code and got the “Worked on my machine” line. Turned out the code branch under IsMarksMachine() somehow worked, but in all other cases, it didn’t.

Mark is not the real name. But man was he a bad coder.

The OSRS client RuneLite is Linux native, open source, and Jagex (the developer) approved

Not sure how good it is but Ryzom is Linux native and open source. I’ll be checking it out soon

A little misplaced anger can go a long way!

Ive enjoyed btop as a top alternative. I’ll check out gtop too!

Joke’s on them. I cut it all out

Id wager few have used a Mac compared to Windows. Windows was always more ubiquitous, and its usually the default in work and school settings so it has a lot more chances to disappoint