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Speaking of Microsoft, it's time to halt starting any new projects in Windows and use Linux for those scenarios where an OS kernel is required. For the sake of

Speaking of Microsoft, it's time to halt starting any new projects in Windows and use Linux for those scenarios where an OS kernel is required. For the sake of security and reliability. the industry should declare that OS as deprecated.

tsujamin 4y ago
get back to me when there's equivalents of KPP/Credential Guard/a stable driver API/etc
- LunaSea 4y ago
  Do we still have ads in the operating system?
  - MiddleEndian 4y ago
    MS would still fit ads into the OS even if the kernel was Linux tbh. Look at Android, really lowered the bar of what you could do with Linux.
  - snickerbockers 4y ago
    tbf the win 11 update finally stopped shilling minecraft in the start menu, although its still trying way too hard to convince me that their app store isnt a complete waste of money that will be gone in a decade.
- snickerbockers 4y ago
  tbh i was mostly being facetious and I don't actually think everybody needs to immediately drop Windows (although i do actually hate it). The OP has the exact same problem that you highlighted with my post, which is the assumption that since rust is a viable replacement for C in his line of work, C must be obsolete across the board for everyone, which is a ridiculously arrogant statement. Rust's tier 1 platform support is woefully inadequate (https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html), and even the tier 3 platform list is missing some important targets. And even the platforms that it works on aren't necessarily platforms where it works well enough to be a viable alternative to C. But this guy from Microsoft's Azure who probably only ever writes software for x86 and ARM says C should be considered deprecated because Rust works really well in his specific domain.
vasama 4y ago
If only Linux offered a half decent kernel API instead of that dumpster fire that is POSIX. Even so, for anything not involving graphical user interfaces I somewhat agree with you.

tsujamin 4y ago

get back to me when there's equivalents of KPP/Credential Guard/a stable driver API/etc

LunaSea 4y ago
Do we still have ads in the operating system?
- MiddleEndian 4y ago
  MS would still fit ads into the OS even if the kernel was Linux tbh. Look at Android, really lowered the bar of what you could do with Linux.
- snickerbockers 4y ago
  tbf the win 11 update finally stopped shilling minecraft in the start menu, although its still trying way too hard to convince me that their app store isnt a complete waste of money that will be gone in a decade.
snickerbockers 4y ago
tbh i was mostly being facetious and I don't actually think everybody needs to immediately drop Windows (although i do actually hate it). The OP has the exact same problem that you highlighted with my post, which is the assumption that since rust is a viable replacement for C in his line of work, C must be obsolete across the board for everyone, which is a ridiculously arrogant statement. Rust's tier 1 platform support is woefully inadequate (https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html), and even the tier 3 platform list is missing some important targets. And even the platforms that it works on aren't necessarily platforms where it works well enough to be a viable alternative to C. But this guy from Microsoft's Azure who probably only ever writes software for x86 and ARM says C should be considered deprecated because Rust works really well in his specific domain.

vasama 4y ago

If only Linux offered a half decent kernel API instead of that dumpster fire that is POSIX. Even so, for anything not involving graphical user interfaces I somewhat agree with you.