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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by saagarjha on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:40AM (#25238563)
watchOS lets you call much of the UNIX APIs, you (as third-party developer) just aren’t allowed to make command-line tools and daemons.
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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by pjmlp on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:37PM (#25238962)
Try to make a watchOS app only with UNIX APIs.
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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by saagarjha on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:40PM (#25238986)
Try to make an app on any platform only with UNIX APIs? GUI toolkits and other platform frameworks always exist.
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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by pjmlp on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:30PM (#25239417)
It works perfectly alright on UNIX clones, with a terminal and keyboard, both are missing from Apple watch.
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