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2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew Kelley

Zig SHOWTIME · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Andrew Kelley's Zig SHOWTIME talk on an experiment to ship static Linux executables that can do graphics and gaming, followed by an interview. It covers the problems of Linux binary stability, dynamic linking and the graphics ABI.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it in threads on Linux desktop application distribution as a clear treatment of why binary compatibility and static linking are hard.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Andrew Kelley makes an interesting point in”

    Interesting point about hard-coded PT_INTERP.

    ndesaulniers, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “A proposal to start “llvm-libc” (2020)”

  2. “Here's good video about this problem space btw”

    Good video on the problem space of Linux binary stability.

    Cloudef, 2024-02 · Recommendation · in “Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: static linking, zig, linux gaming, abi stability, graphics drivers

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