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I noticed a huge portion of software apps only support Windows and not Mac or Linux. I understand that there might be an API that they're using that only exists on a certain system. In this case, why ...
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I am working on a portable SaaS web application that has these requirements: The application can run as a cloud service hosted by my organization. Clients can run the application in their own on-...
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i am a lawyer and currently writing an essay about data access in ioT environments. I often stumble over the distinction between read access and write access. Could someone provide me with an example, ...
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Hi all I love stackoverflow so helpful. Afaik IOS has some security measures that dont let other apps (such as jvm) execute code from your app. Not sure how much this is true. But anyway, I heard ...
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I am writing a simple compiler. I have written lexer and parser and it now generates assembly code from given code. Now I need to write an assembler which generates machine code. But the problem is ...
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Wherein portability is defined generally as the percentage of platforms a language or technology can run on, C/C++ are often cited as being more portable than Java, because a Java application depends ...
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I'm working on a small (and very tame) FOSS utility; and I want to test it to make sure that it builds on Mac OSes. But - I don't have a Mac OS I could use for that. I have access to Linux and to ...
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Question is: What is target-dependent code and how does it effect portability of a software? Motivation to ask this question In a CS class, I'm told that the more target-dependent code software has, ...
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I'm here today, because I'd like to ask you a question about porting application built with Qt5 to linux. I have been asked to port this application to linux, I don't yet have the source code, but I ...
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Given the interfaces that major OSes (Windows, macOS/OS X/Mac OS X, Linux) provide to file systems, can file systems be designed and implemented in a way that is largely independent of OS? I'm not at ...
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I have been having a huge and heated argument with someone on a slack group - the debate is this : My argument Portable code is that which compiles with various compilers and runs exactly the same on ...
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I am converting some .NET framework targeted projects over to Portable Class Libraries and looking for some best practices. Usually all of my projects use the same project name and assembly name, and ...
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I need a advice on creating an architecture where I want API layer in between UI layer and business layer. UI layer should only consume REST services for displaying data. Reason for doing this is ...
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I recently was wondering when to use C over C++, and vice versa? Fortunately someone already beat me to it and although it took a while, I was able to digest all the answers and comments to that ...
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My php framework uses DIRECORY_SEPARATOR constant instead of /. Can there be any other options for a directory separator?
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