DSP56k emulation has come a long way - not only in this great project, there are also working DSP56001 emulations in the Hatari Atari Falcon and Previous NeXT emulators now.
"“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases"
The post is clearly aimed at self-promotion. The guy is basically referring to mundane things like using transpilers to generate Rust from C. Those have been around for a few years now, such as C2Rust[1]. At best, this sort of project is looking for corporate backing to politically handle this sort of migration.
At this point this sort of stunt is hardly technical, and instead it's something between a publicity stunt and managing technical debt.
That's irrelevant when discussing migrating large volumes of code. The hard part is migrating the project to another tech stack and setup proper test coversge. After that point, nice-to-haves such as idiomatic code is treated as mundane maintenance work.
First - a new, lightweight PDF viewer for macOS is highly welcome, since Preview.app has turned into a slow, buggy mess. So thanks a lot for working on this!
However, the whole download experience for PageFlow is more than discouraging with the gumroad forms that include a suggested price and tip fields instead of directly offering the download.
Also, you advertise the application as being open source with no single link provided. Is the source available somewhere already?
One more thing. The app seems to be compiled for macOS >= 26.0 according to Info.plist, but your web page indicates "Requires macOS 12 or higher". So I think there's something wrong with your build settings.
Honestly, that doesn't sound so bad, compared to what social media does to children. The combination of feed manipulation and content poisoning has devastating effects on the emotional wellbeing even adults. I hope that they get preoccupied on hacking their way onto those sites, rather than on their contents. This is notwithstanding the serious privacy concerns that this age-based ban raises.
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