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I wish they would have broken down the walls of the garden and made it a first-class engine for shipping “real” games on the platform. Even from a business perspective, it seems like a huge competitive advantage—no way would people be able to port any of it to other platforms.

IMO the Mach virtual memory API is much nicer than the Linux one.


Wayland too!


I am pretty sure the shimmering effect for loading originated in the Facebook Paper app, released in 2014.


A 2012 historical retrospective on the subject from Larry Tesler (the NOMODES man himself): https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/ENS/FundHCI/2013/papers/Tesler-CutCo...

The issue he had with the “move to” operation is that it forced you into a mode where you had to pick a destination right away. I wonder if OP’s proposal was ever brought up at the time—it does seem like a promising middle ground!


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