I used to write software. Some of the shit I wrote was rather complex too. Grabbing RAM from console emulators to compare, hex edit, and make gameshark codes back in the day, etc. Wrote a MIPS assembler/disassembler too. Did a little save editing in the 360 era but hated trying to crack checksums. I even used a library someone made to adapt my gameshark tool to straight up PS2 hacking via the broadband adapter. Everything I wrote, I did with ANSI C and Win32 API calls. Not totally platform independent, but not riddled with dependencies like shit is now. All my programs ran on any version of windows without needing any bullshit extra frameworks, libraries etc as well as running under Wine on linux.
Software nowadays is written by assholes who can’t really code. Everything is dependencies on top of dependencies, and it’s ridiculous. Nothing is a self-contained app anymore on Windows or linux. Every time I need to install a new app, I’m stuck figuring out how to install something else it depends on in linux or updating some bullshit framework on Windows. It’s disgusting. I’d probably still be running Ubuntu 10.04 if Chrome and FF browsers weren’t all cunty about dependencies and were compiled as compeltely self-contained apps like they should be. I still remember when Firefox was new and it was like 6MB. That’s how far back I go. I started with Windows 3.1 and DOS. Win 2K/XP were my bread and butter, and many others refused to give them up. I made peace with Win7, but I’ve mostly been running linux the past 10 years. Refuse to run Win10.
An example for you, I downloaded the linux (debian) version of a relatively simple app called SaveWizard yesterday. Naturally, it wouldn’t install because of bullshit unmet dependencies. It wanted some shit called “mono-complete.” WTF is that??? So I try apt-get install the shit, but that’s not good enough. It says it needs a newer version, so I have to Google the fucking thing to find out how to add the official repository, then install it. Then I can finally install the app I wanted. If they didn’t code like assholes, the Windows version would run in Wine like the software I used to write.
Mentally Irregular 