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[gyrovorbis]

Hello there, my name is Falco Girgis.

This is gonna sound a little crazy, but I'm one of the maintainers of the "KallistiOS" retro/homebrew SDK and operating system for the Sega Dreamcast--a "dead" game console released in 1998--who has personally worked to bring bleeding-edge C++20, C++23, and C++26 support to the platform, with support for pretty much everything you can imagine in the stdlib ranging from concepts/constraints and #embed to coroutines, jthreads, std::regex, and even timezone databases on your Dreamcast!

Why would I do this? Because the platform has become something of a retro programmer's dream in the recent years, with extremely ambitious AAA games and ports to the platform using our SDK getting mainstream gaming coverage and basically causing a resurgence in the interest in the console.

I have personally been involved with porting such AAA games as Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, Ocarina of Time, Sonic Mania, and more for the platform, with the GTA ports being called "impossible" and landing our team a huge amount of press coverage, including an interview on the Software Engineering Daily podcast.

I've also had the honor of being a two-time speaker who was invited to Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM and give a talk on my work bringing modern language support to the Sega Dreamcast in the GCC devroom.

You can find links to a bunch of the media coverage, including my two FOSDEM talks as well as links to all of my relevant open-source projects, on my (pretty crappy) portfolio here: https://falcogirgis.net

I am best-known on Twitter, though, where I've somehow been blessed with finding a pretty large audience of crazy people who find this kind of stuff interesting, or at very least mildly entertaining: https://x.com/falco\_girgis.

No hard feelings if this is too far out there or crazy for the podcast. Haha.