Since it underpins Android, you could argue it’s the most successful OS in general.

If you’ve never placed too much trust in your sphincter before, you will eventually.

I’d first heard of it yesterday when I saw it recommended here somewhere.

However, I wouldn’t assume maliciousness over incompetence. It is Google after all… Anybody who has ever published anything on there has probably had it removed at some point. There’s so many malicious apps and spurious reports, it could honestly be anything. The smaller your app, the longer it takes for an actual human to get involved and sort it out.

Thing is, I do kind of think of a JVM as an emulator for a processor that doesn’t exist.

WINE kind of blurs the line of a traditional emulator by having the executable run natively on the target machine’s CPU, but everything it does in regards to dealing with the host OS, the display, disk access, etc, is emulated as far as I’m aware.

A theoretical PS4 or Xbox One emulator running on x86 hardware could be just as much of an emulator as WINE is.

It kind of is though.

I think it’s a different beast entirely.

The open source alternative to Delphi is Lazarus if you’re that way inclined.

A lot of Delphi was the work of Anders Hejlsberg, who you might remember from other little known languages such as C# and Typescript.

Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!

Either that or sit in 1 and tell him one of the wolves is violating the GPL.

I wish they’d open source it.

I don’t think anything else comes close for just dropping a bunch of shit on a form and running it.

Have you heard of our lord and saviour, Delphi?

Automated numberplate recognition systems have spoilt so much fun.

Tfw some new laptops don’t even have a place to put more RAM.

Boggles the mind that laptop people just rolled over and accepted this bullshit.

Last time I tried HDR on Windows, that sucked too.

My Android TV and consoles are about the only devices where it works properly.

SNES ROMs were actually around 4MB. People always spoke about them being 32 Meg or whatever, but they meant megabits.

I did like Animal Well, but gave up after looking at one of the bunny solutions and deciding I didn’t have the patience for that.

I think most of the size of games is just graphics and audio. I think the code for most games is pretty small, but for some godforsaken reason it’s really important that they include incredibly detailed doorknobs and 50 hours of high quality speech for a dozen languages in raw format.

There’s going to be a lot of shocked Pikachus when the inevitable enshittification hits, and suddenly they charge to host all the documentation and wiki pages. All that barely maintained stuff will just vanish overnight.

I once played along just to waste their time. Got to the point where I had to go to a site and get my IP address.

I told him it was 127.0.0.1, and he just said “I think you be messing with me now sir” and hung up. :D