On 03/01/2017 03:46 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 21:50:11 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
What a long, roundabout path we've taken to end up back where we
started: shipping binaries in a sandboxed environment.
Portable object-files is something that that people have tried to
achieve since the 1980s, but vendors have always undermined it. If this
goes through then it will be the first time we have a portable object
files with backing of the major vendors. Even Microsoft.
If we could invent a technical way to screw over, underminine, and
completely replace corporate interests, it would be the single greatest
achievement in computing (not to mention economic theory), EVER.
Believe it it not, I'm still holding my breath for that, impossible
though it may be. Call me a dreamer. Or a nutjob ;) Same thing, I suspect ;)
