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by gary_0
545 days ago
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So many devs are too young to remember a time before you would expect to just download some open source and compile it for x86/amd64/arm/emscripten/etc and be good to go. In the old days, if you didn't want to write that library code yourself, chances are all your AltaVista search would turn up was a guy selling a header file and a DLL and OCX[0] for $25. If you were lucky! A vast amount of code was only intended to compile and run on a single OS and architecture (circa 2000, that was usually x86 Win32; Unix was dying and Wintel had taken over the world). If some code needed to be ported to another platform, it was as good as a from-scratch re-write. [0] in case you wanted to use the thing in Visual Basic, which you very well might. |
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