Comment by hnlmorg
11 hours ago
> “Portable”, in the context of how it was used, generally refers to software using platform agnostic idioms.
“in the context of how it was used,”
This isn’t some meta conversation about how to write portable software. This is a conversation specific to what the author had written about their project.
In context, they probably mean portable by installed base of targets. In a world in which nothing but ARM cores exist, a machine language ARM program is portable, and even "extremely" so.
There is a usage of "portable" which has to do with percentage of installations it runs in or can be easily made to run in, regardless of how much has to be changed to get it working anywhere else.