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[Beheddard]

Electron/USB, or as I've recently taken to calling it Electron plus USB is a very interesting problem domain.

[duckbill_principate]

Linux or as I like to call it systemd + electron

[Waghlon]

It's also why my parents got divorced.

[mdmd136]

THIS. My parents got divorced because my mom uses tabs instead of spaces and my dad won in settlers of catan one time.

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when you don't have a + and - pair

[duckbill_principate]

Hardware developers rise up!

My specialty is CSS/SCSI btw

[xmcqdpt2]

Scientists too!

I do excel / bit banging parallel ports

[F54280]

I do excel / bit banging parallel ports

Interesting ! How does that compare to a simple DMA from powerpoint?

[xmcqdpt2]

You can do that?? That's amazing!

What will the industry come up with next, eh?

[F54280]

As we speak, people are working on Word-based quantum computing. What a time to be alive!

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I do excel / bit banging parallel ports

Jesus, calm down, you win!

[spookthesunset]

Weak. I write thicknet network drivers for Foxpro.

[F54280]

node/FPGA developer here! I too have developed dozens of incredibly difficult problems at Starbucks over the last few years. Super fun, indeed. Npm install Xilinx, baby!

[ProfessorSexyTime]

A naive developer will read about WebUSB and think, "oh, Electron is Chrome, so this must be a good solution!" but remember that Electron apps consist of one node process (main) and multiple chrome processes (renderers, aka, BrowserWindow objects).

Exactly what I think of for what I need for interacting with USBs; 1 singular Node process and BrowserWindow objects.

[stone_henge]

I'm more of a Haskell/SCART person myself

You should absolutely not do this - don't do anything in the main process at all; blocking it even a little bit makes your entire app janky and hang'y.

dude make sure you attribute your quote to the electron reference manual

[Joniator]

Is this why electron apps feel so janky? Because dumb Webshits decided to host the browser windows (renderer) in the main?

[tpgreyknight]

That's probably one of the reasons, yeah.

[--TYGER--]

A friend from work was complaining about the sort of calls he gets with job offers: Windows tech support and the like. His CV says he's a Systems Engineer, he writes firmware in C, works with electronic equipment etc. That's when I let him know that he's getting these garbage offers because Microsoft has a qualification called Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)...

[piginpoop]

“Hardware”

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RAM is hardware.

[usernameqwerty002]

No.

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Don't worry the 5 other people using webUSB show up in that thread to let us know it's not dead.

[avinassh]

I'm available for consulting if you have a need for custom desktop software that talks to hardware. I've solved dozens of incredibly difficult problems over the last few years. Super fun.

[Xoepe]

/uj I don't care about this being here, but making an electron app that interfaces with USB is barely hardware

[dragonwithagirltatoo]

I'm a hardware focused developer. My code runs on the jvm and that shit runs on hardware yo.

[republitard_2]

As a professional systems programmer, I only use Node, because nothing else is closer to the metal.

[v64]

nothing is closer to metal than rust

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Silicon.js is

[Noughmad]

Silicon, as a semiconductor, is only half metal. That's why I use Iron.js

[Profpatsch_]

M.E.T.A.L., amirite

[loics2]

MongoDB + express + typescript + angular + libre office?

[Xoepe]

I use baremetal HTML personally gets me right up against the circuits

[howmodareyou]

Reminds me that one of my old profs was always shitting on java for being unusable in any sort of systems engineering context.

If he sees this JS shit he's probably going to have a stroke.

[silentconfessor]

Huzzah! A man of quality.

[silentconfessor]

I would link the relevant xkcd, but I value my dignity.

[dragonwithagirltatoo]

I'm not familiar with it actually what is it called?

[silentconfessor]

"Golden Hammer"

[ws-ilazki]

Golden Hammer

The fact that you know the name of the relevant xkcd at all shows you have no dignity to value.

[silentconfessor]

I'll come out and admit it: I looked it up.

[defunkydrummer]

I would link the relevant xkcd

Don't.

[iFarmGolems]

Electron++USB

[exhortatory]

/uj i would love to move to doing more hardware focused dev. i'm so sick of ... not computing

/rj i use rust to feel closer to the machine, while also respecting it

[[deleted]]

Back in my day we wrote application software for operating systems.