Graphic programming, without a GPU, and even without a FPU, was quite interesting (here is a realtime-ish phong rendering I implemented circa 1995, without any float numbers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5hzUkOJsk).
Thanks for sharing. I know that "Zen of Graphic programming" is mostly about "graphic programming using CPU", is this actually the same thing that a GPU driver does? It makes sense though, as GPU simply take over what the CPU was supposed to do. But I do believe there are a lot of hardware information included too. I wonder how these two parts piece together...
Companies _are_ launching products with it ; that you aren't hearing about it is more about communication & leverage, than about their existence.
A while back there was an effort to give more publicity on precise cases here https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html ; I think the effort is now moving to advertising the platform outside Elixir circles (e.g. more generalist conferences).
FWIW, I'm working on https://transport.data.gouv.fr, Elixir-based since 2016, the National Access Point to transportation data, which includes a business specific reverse proxy with a 3x YoY growth, with no plans to migrate :-)
A bit of a sidenote but: what is a gmail alternative that really works? For instance, spam handling is worse in pretty much any alternative I've tried.
I'm interested in EU-based products first. But they need to handle spam well!
It's hard to judge but for me Fastmail seems to be pretty great at detecting spam, at least it always ends up in my Spam folder. False positives are pretty regular, so far never actual human written emails though, only newsletters, but still. Overall for me a set and happily forget kind of service. Support is decent too.
I'm a happy user of Fastmail. It's a paid service (€5 per month) but that comes with higher standards. The webmail has been pretty good. Barely any spam to speak of (once a week?), even though I have various email addresses in public places.
Protonmail works in the sense that I can receive and send emails, it's always up when I need it. I don't know how much of the spam is not arriving or being filtered.
Do you have any deliverability issues when sending mails? I find Protonmail interesting and I like the clean UI, but I worry my mails may end up in recipients' spam folder more often.
I use Apple's hosted domain service, which is included in the price of Apple One we were already paying for. It's been surprisingly great since I switched my domains to it.
Overall, it's not widely used nor pushed (blue green deployments are now very common), but it still has interesting uses.
For instance, very high availability without blue-green (using a front-end that can be hot-patched), or... musical endeavors (such as live reloading code that generates music, on the go) https://youtu.be/_VgcUatTilU?si=DDfe4FN3Nw9OzRhF&t=122
