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Why SML/SMS doesn't run on Windows - and why that's a feature

DEV Community·Art·22 days ago
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Let me tell you a story. I was leading a raid in World of Warcraft. 24 people. Everyone waiting on me. And Windows decided that exact moment was the perfect time for an update. No warning. No mercy. Just a reboot. I switched to Mac the next day. For years it was great. Steve Jobs understood something most tech CEOs never will: the user is not the product. The user is the guest. You treat guests with respect. Then Steve left us. And slowly - update by update, policy by policy - Apple became just another corporation. A beautiful one. But one that now decides what software you can run, what hardware you can repair, and what belongs to you and what belongs to them. So here we are. We are building SMS - a programming language that compiles to native binaries via LLVM. Open source. GPL-3. No telemetry. No stakeholders. No investors. It runs on Mac and Linux. Not on Windows - and that is not an oversight. That is a choice. Because we are not building for a world where your OS reboots your raid.…

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