As someone from game development, not supporting Vulkan on Android and sticking with OpenGL ES instead is a safer bet. There is always some device(s) that bug out on Vulkan badly. Nobody wants to sit and find workarounds for that obscure vendor.

I expect more kids will switch to playing more games on their phones with their friends. Whoever thinks the kids will instead put down their phones and starting go out more often has lost touch with reality.

This is still a trillion times better than the Antisocial media of today. At least they'll interact with their friends.

Online competitive games at least require you to work your brain.

You don't understand, we're going back to the good old days.

Kids will go back to rolling hoops and playing jacks in the street, they'll write letters to each other in cursive, because print is addictive, and we can finally go back to the time where if a kid is even a little bit different from those around them, they're robbed of having any type of social support system that doesn't ostracize them.

They pushed them out of Italy, which forced mafia to adapt in the US, eventually becoming richer and stronger. A much more powerful transnational mafia returned back to Italy.

by "they" do you mean Mussolini?

What exactly Leonardo Sciascia mean in his "Porte Aperte" is the fascism merely "anesthetize" the mafia rather than eradicating it (gaining temporary Sicilian consent through illusionary repression)

You think that's bad? Grugnar charge 80% to sell rocks in front of cave, but Grugnar killed by Bugluk and then cave belong to Bugluk. Bugluk eat you and take rocks if you try sell in front of cave.

I'm replying to the statement that 30% was always a bad deal, by providing an example that shows that it was a clear improvement on the market of mobile development (as others did the same in this comments section).

In your cavemen logic the closest example would be that nobody killed the first guy; he was forced out of business because a new cave opened nearby and they were selling rocks much cheaper.

On the contrary. There is an ongoing DoJ antitrust case against Apple with a long list of grievances. Most of those were already addressed by Apple (since the case was filed a pretty long time ago) the rest will be tested in the courtroom in the following years.

Those cases take a long time.

Epic lost on 9 counts out of 10 in the original lawsuit. The one they won is being appealed and in the process Fortnight was ordered to be reinstated in the US. I wouldn't bet that this arrangement will survive appeals.

They also host and serve videos. Not sure about other media

Good point. That makes them a combined platform and payment processor. So it seems to me the logical question would be, shouldn't they just break the platform part out then? But isn't that exactly what their percentage fee amounts to? So Apple should be entitled to 30% of their (IIRC) 5%, right?

Really they ought to further split that out into "processing fee" and "platform services fee" and Apple would then be entitled to 30% of the latter.

And yet despite his alleged criminal activities Russian prosecutors have failed to present an evidence-backed case that would warrant the notice to Interpol. That is why it was cleared.

Ah, this is an OJ Simpson: looks extremely guilty, but because the police are lazy and incompetent they frame him rather than building an actual case.

It's the second time today when I see that the higher number of LoC is served as something positive. I would put it strictly in "Ugly" category. I understand the business logic that says that as long as you can vibe code away from any problems, what's the point of even looking at the code.

As the saying goes:

   Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs.

150k sounds like a lot. I do have to wonder what the program does exactly to see if that’s warranted, but it sounds bloated.

Think of it as 60 man-years of work.

If that's true then I can ship 60 man-years of work with

  yes 'println("a very important and useful line of code");' >> main.c

in under a second!

How is that 60 man-years of work? You are not going to replicate what the LLM generated in under a second without the LLM.

Remember, there used to be a time programmers productivity was measured in LoC per hour.

As such, this is high productivity! /s

> Remember, there used to be a time programmers productivity was measured in LoC per hour.

Do you remember such a time or company? I have been developing professionally since the early 1990's (and hobbyist before then), and this "truth" has been a meme even back then.

I'm sure it happened, but I'm not sure it was ever as widespread as this legend would make it sound.

But, there were decades of programmers programming before I started, so maybe it just predated even me.

I do, besides the sibling comment, there is hacker lore about these kind of issues,

> They devised a form that each engineer was required to submit every Friday, which included a field for the number of lines of code that were written that week.

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

IBM had such a culture back in the day, where they feted 1 kloc/day programmers. That was what Bill Gates sneered at with the "Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs" quote.