Conditional compilation can be rather useful. In particular, it's rather handy to support multiple versions of a particular dependency. The current set of tools for doing is inadequate. Preprocessors ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg Licholai writes and teaches about innovation in healthcare. In a move that could dramatically reshape the landscape for rare ...

There are a few lygia WebGPU files calling for conditional compilation in lygia. e.g. rbg2xyz. They're in comments now of course, since wgsl doesn't support conditional compilation. I'll bet there are ...

Google Forms is a widely-used tool for gathering information, and the addition of conditional logic improves its capabilities significantly. By dynamically tailoring the flow of questions based on ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

From Reddit threads to roundtable events, debating the merits of programming languages is not a new phenomenon. And while much of the recent discourse has centered around AI’s impact and whether or ...

Abstract: Highly-configurable systems written in C form our most critical computing infrastructure. The preprocessor is integral to C, because conditional compilation enables such systems to produce ...

A significant update for the Microsoft Photos app was rolled out to Windows Insiders and is now rolling out to retail customers, starting with version 2024.11050.3002.0 and above. The Microsoft Photos ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...