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Vrmac reviews and mentions

• My negative views on Rust (2023)
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2024

  > Those languages don't come with mechanisms to let you to make system calls directly or handle the precise memory structure of the data

  Here’s a C# library for Linux where I’m doing all these things https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/VrmacVideo/Rea... As you see from that readme, the performance is pretty good too.

• ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2024

  Linux XRender is functionally similar to Windows DirectComposition

  Linux does not have anything similar to Direct2D, despite it’s technically possible to make it. Here’s a proof of concept for ARMv7 Debian (Raspberry Pi4), on top of GLES 3.1: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/?tab=readme-ov-file#2d-gra...

• New Renderers for GTK
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024

  Couple times in the past I have implemented GPU-targeted GUI renderers, here’s an example: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac?tab=readme-ov-file#vector-... https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/VAA...

  2D graphics have very little in common with game engines. The problem is very different in many regards. In 2D, you generally have Bezier and other splines on input, large amount of overdraw, textures coming from users complicate VRAM memory management. OTOH, game engines are solving hard problem which are irrelevant to 2D renderers, like dynamic lighting, volumetric effects, and dynamic environment.

• Was Rust Worth It?
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
• Stable Diffusion in pure C/C++
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2023
• Media Player Element now available for cross-platform apps everywhere dotnet runs
  2 projects | /r/dotnet | 6 Jun 2023

  BTW, I did that too for 32-bit ARM Linux on Raspberry Pi 4, back in 2020: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo Unlike Uno, my implementation doesn’t use libVLC and is written mostly in C#, only audio decoders are in C++. To decode video, I directly consume V4L2 Linux kernel APIs.

• Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
  95 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2023

  Doing that for decades.

  An app for Windows phone, downloaded 140k times: https://github.com/Const-me/SkyFM

  Cross-platform graphics library for .NET: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac

  Recently, offline speech-to-text for Windows: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper

  At this point, I consider side projects like that as a hobby.

• Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2023

  I think this needs much more complexity to be useful.

  For the rendering, ideally it needs GPU support.

  Input needs much more work, here's an overview for Windows: https://zserge.com/posts/fenster/

  Windows' Sleep() function has default resolution 15.6ms, that's not enough for realtime rendering, and relatively hard to fix, ideally need a modern OS and a waitable timer created with high resolution flag.

  Here's my attempt at making something similar, couple years ago: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac

• An MP4 file first draft
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2022
• Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2022

  I agree about Python or PHP.

  However, for Java or modern C#, in my experience the performance is often fairly close. When using either of them, very often one doesn’t need C++ to be good enough.

  Here’s an example, a video player library for Raspberry Pi4: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo As written on that page, just a few things are in C++ (GLES integration, audio decoders, and couple SIMD utility functions), the majority of things are in C#.

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