[OT] mobile rising

[rikki cattermole]

On 15/11/2017 3:15 AM, solidstate1991 wrote:
> After all this flaming about Windows, mobile devices (I personally 
> prefer my desktop PC thanks to its "power", or at least what it used to 
> left, thanks to long unemployment time and lack of income, have a Nokia 
> Lumia which I cannot upgrade to W10 due to BS reasons, and I think 
> open-source architectures will kill off the proprietary ARM and x86 in 
> the long run, not the mobile platform the desktops/laptops(funny story 
> is that my mother tried to ditch desktop multiple times for the mobile, 
> then got back, same happened with one of my cousin after he realized 
> that pay-to-win games suck)), can we get back on rails? While its true 
> that Windows and desktop is losing its place, we need to support Windows 
> on a much higher level as long as there's a large number of PCs out 
> there. Game development would highly benefit from D thanks to its 
> all-in-one approach, probably could cut a few millions off from AAA game 
> development. Also audio-engineers are switching to Windows, thanks to 
> Apple scrapping the IO on their products (I'm also a digital artist, 
> have to stay with Windows due to drivers, software, and ease of use).
> 
> Walter Bright: What's the licensing state of DMC and OPTLINK? Can it 
> made open-source? If yes, we should patch in a COFF32/64 support, maybe 
> even port it to D for easier development. I can spend some of my time 
> working on the DLL support if needed.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/19