Sad video to watch. I can't help but feel for the guy, even though I wouldn't know Forth from fifth except for being aware of its influence and its place at the root of an entire taxonomy of languages, and recalling that Chuck was its originator. (ngcc_hk, is it too late to fix the spelling of his name?)
Many if not most of us will be sitting in that chair someday, wondering why our code or our hardware broke for no apparent reason, yet again, and realizing that this time is different because we just don't have enough patience, motivation, or time left to deal with it.
Wish I knew exactly what went wrong. Did they yank DirectDraw out of Win32, or something?
A lot of us might experience similar things, but this seems somewhat unique.
He has a large amount of original low level code where he's the only maintainer, that doesn't work with standard dev tools.
A lot of non-hacker devs would probably have lost interest in, or totally rewritten a project to match modern APIs, long before it was likely to break like that.
Lots of people seem to be offering to help, but that doesn't seem to be what he wants.
He mentions a feeling of fate telling him to move on, hiking, and staying healthy, which seems much more interesting and important.
Sad video to watch. I can't help but feel for the guy, even though I wouldn't know Forth from fifth except for being aware of its influence and its place at the root of an entire taxonomy of languages, and recalling that Chuck was its originator. (ngcc_hk, is it too late to fix the spelling of his name?)
Many if not most of us will be sitting in that chair someday, wondering why our code or our hardware broke for no apparent reason, yet again, and realizing that this time is different because we just don't have enough patience, motivation, or time left to deal with it.
Wish I knew exactly what went wrong. Did they yank DirectDraw out of Win32, or something?
A lot of us might experience similar things, but this seems somewhat unique.
He has a large amount of original low level code where he's the only maintainer, that doesn't work with standard dev tools.
A lot of non-hacker devs would probably have lost interest in, or totally rewritten a project to match modern APIs, long before it was likely to break like that.
Lots of people seem to be offering to help, but that doesn't seem to be what he wants.
He mentions a feeling of fate telling him to move on, hiking, and staying healthy, which seems much more interesting and important.
And you tube
https://youtu.be/MvkGBWXb2oQ
Also on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Forth/s/g4PwcaYJHM