Portability was a long desired attribute of computer software up until it turns out that it doesn't matter at all.
When software was deployed on floppy disks and there were 10k architectures going around, portability was critical to expand the market reach of any distributed software.
But in the modern age when the software runs "in the cloud" and there are dominant platforms out there, turns out that portability doesn't matter - nobody is changing platforms when they don't need to.
So this makes this achievement a pretty cool demo without any industry impact, since people don't distribute C binaries anymore.
The idea behind it and the technology developed is pretty cool :)
When software was deployed on floppy disks and there were 10k architectures going around, portability was critical to expand the market reach of any distributed software.
But in the modern age when the software runs "in the cloud" and there are dominant platforms out there, turns out that portability doesn't matter - nobody is changing platforms when they don't need to.
So this makes this achievement a pretty cool demo without any industry impact, since people don't distribute C binaries anymore.
The idea behind it and the technology developed is pretty cool :)