DPdp-hackernews·Jan 17, 2023Submission
Freac: The fre:AC audio converter project
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freac
C++2017–2023
enzo1982 / freac
freac
The fre:ac audio converter project
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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6 sourcesAs an open source developer, I have mixed feelings about this.
Yes, Microsoft seems very keen on keeping Windows compatible even with ancient versions of the OS. New stuff usually is optional and APIs that behaved strangely in Windows 95 still behave the same way in Windows 10.
In Apple land, APIs may change their behavior whenever Apple deems it necessary. I ran into issues because of this with almost every macOS update since 10.8. And I see that even big players like Adobe keep running into compatibility issues all the time.
On the other hand, I'm spending just a few hours per week working on my project [0] and I manage to support an app that now runs on 10.5 through 10.14 and on three different CPU architectures with a single package. So no, I don't think you need to "throw 100 programmers at it" to get a working macOS version.
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Apple gets a bad reputation for their supposed lack of backwards compatibility. Nothing is further from the truth.
Well, they definitely break a lot of things. Mostly things that were never documented or guaranteed to work, though.
My app [1] regularly broke with new macOS releases between 10.9 and 10.12. So often I actually shivered when they announced a new version.
I was calling Cocoa stuff from separate threads which is almost never guaranteed to work on macOS (the UI is explicitly not thread-safe). It usually worked on older releases though, but since 10.9 or so, it broke a little more with almost every new release.
Not really Apple's fault as it's mosty breaking stuff that was explicitly not guaranteed to work in the first place and which I shouldn't have used. On the other hand, Microsoft seems to keep every quirk from Windows 9x t
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ime still working until today.
[1] https://github.com/enzo1982/freac
What worked great for me is to simply show a dialog with PayPal donation buttons after my app has been started 10 times.
With the 10 starts threshold only regular users get the dialog and if they don't like it, they can uncheck a box and never see it again.
On average, I get one donation for every 1000 downloads which appears to be a relatively good rate.
[1]: https://github.com/enzo1982/freac
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