Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by iLoveOncall on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:32PM
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> The competition at the time was also cutting edge at the time
I don't deny that, but just the feature gap was a lot less compared to what it is now.
We're talking about a time where video games were made by teams of 5 people, not 500.
If the cutting edge technology is using a rock on a stick and you're using a rock, it's easier to catch up than if you're using a rock and they already have tree cutters working on nuclear energy.
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by pessimizer on Monday September 12, 2022 @03:29PM
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Rocks and sticks are things that people find on the ground. Computing and operating system design was in 1991 a deep science/craft/industry that had been developed and implemented over many decades by thousands of people employing billions of dollars worth of resources.
Related: are you trying to make an argument that a small team or a single person shouldn't try to write a video game in 2022?
The competition at the time was also cutting edge at the time, the result of billions of dollars of investment over decades, and Linux was nothing. There's no reason that your argument couldn't have been made in 1991. Why, specifically, would it have been a bad argument in 1991, since we now know it would have been?