Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions

Am 30.05.2024 um 13:23 schrieb bart:

On 30/05/2024 02:31, Malcolm McLean wrote:

On 30/05/2024 01:18, bart wrote:

On 29/05/2024 22:46, Malcolm McLean wrote:

 

Baby X can't compete.

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Huh? I didn't know Baby X was an OS!
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Its an API. You call the Baby X API to get buttons and menus and other graphical elements, instead of Windows APIs. And it has just got its own file system.

 Hardly anybody uses the WinAPI directly.

There are still a lot of desktop-appliatons written with MFC.
MFC is nearly without abstraction and feels like a more productive
WinAPI for GUI-purposes.

 Everyone uses wrapper libraries, usually cross-platform. Ones like GTK, SDL, Raylib, maybe even OpenGL.
 Those are your competitors, although I'm not sure which one corresponds more closely with what BBX does (which I thought was also cross-platform?)
 I'm not sure what you mean by having its own file system. But I don't use the file system calls of WinAPI either; I use the C standard library.