# The Road Ahead

URL: /show/coder-radio/30/
> Mike’s got his hands on some new Windows RT devices, and shares his thoughts, challenges, and hopes. Plus we discuss the Super Meat Boy vs Canonical drama, share our predictions for what’s to come in 2013, and answer some emails.

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 30
- Date: 2012-12-31
- Hosts: chris, michael
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/bDTe3ALFJdQ





### Episode Links

#### Feedback

  * Ouya errata
  * Wayland writes in to ask if we think AAA games will ever come to Linux
  * Brett writes:

> “Hi Chris Michael,
>
> Just wondering what your thoughts are on learning/doing desktop apps
> compared to say web apps. Where do you see the shift or direction in
> programming going? Do you see more options for website/internet programming
> (Ruby,Perl, ASP, Javascript etc. ) or is it better to learn a system
> "desktop application" type language such as (Python, C#, Java etc.)
>
> Is Desktop applications still a worthwhile cause?
>
> Thank you for the tips and knowledge.

  * [Tzadik wonders if Michael has seen Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C and asks if we will ever do an Objective-C episode.](http://cs.gmu.edu/_sean/stuff/java-objc.html/index.html)

  * Raymii asks if I’ve noticed that e-mail is “stupid to parse” and asks if we think he should take a shot selling his super duper e-mail backing up Python script and, if so, should he use Paypal or the processor that Michael uses for Code Journal

  * [NoPriv.py – Easy IMAP email backup to HTML archive. – Raymii.org](https://raymii.org/s/software/Nopriv.pyd13a.html?utm_source=LASReddit\\%22)

#### Hoopla

  * Meat RAGE
  * ["Last year Ubuntu added Super Meat Boy to their store without our written permission and sold it for a full year without paying us."](http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/15av2w/last_year_ubuntu_added_super_meat_boy_to_their/index.html)
  * [Google+ – Well this is going to stir up a holiday kerfuffle!](https://plus.google.com/108668411027851722546/posts/3746NppjDew/index.html)

#### Christmas Goodies!

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  * [HTC 8x c620E 16GB Unlocked GSM Smartphone - No Warranty - Black - GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz; HSPA/WCDMA: 850/900/1900/2100 MHz](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009ESF2L6?SubscriptionId=0RGQ32M03RDWT5YF2K82&tag=thelinactsho-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009ESF2L6)