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Every facet of Microsoft seems to lack style. Every official/affiliated blog is ugly and inconsistent. C# looks ugly to me. Windows is fugly. Their fonts are ho
by switch007 2y ago
Every facet of Microsoft seems to lack style. Every official/affiliated blog is ugly and inconsistent. C# looks ugly to me. Windows is fugly. Their fonts are horrid. It's to be expected
- jdthedisciple 2y agoPartial disagree: Yes their blogs may be ugly. But C# is extremely beautiful, you can read and write it like a novel. Segoe UI is also not the worst font. I give it a 7/10.
- switch007 2y agoC# in Visual Studio is ugly with Windows font rendering, to me I find the title case ugly, not a fan of semicolons, nor the new keyword. Guess I'm too used to Kotlin and Linux/Mac fonts
- mystified5016 2y agoYour complaint is not about C#. You're complaining about fonts and saying C# itself is ugly.
- switch007 2y ago[flagged]
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoThey are saying that those particular fonts with that particular kind of font-rendering engine (windows), doesn’t work for them for that particular language. It’s a conjunction of all 3 things.
- sfn42 2y agoAnd none of them have anything to do with the language. You don't need windows, don't need visual studio, and you can choose whatever font you want.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoSure, but if you read their comment, it is conditioned on all of those aspects together. It's not about the language, as is, but all of them together. Is it a useless comment? absolutely! But that's beyond the scope of this conversation.
- tourist2d 2y ago[dead]
- neonsunset 2y agoYou do realize which IDE or text editor to choose and which fonts to use with either is a choice?
- watt 2y agowell, C# and TypeScript is thanks to Anders Hejlsberg who does have sense of style.
- userbinator 2y agoBut C# is extremely beautiful Seriously? It's basically Microsoft-flavoured Java, and has much of the same horrid verboseness and architecture-astronaut overcomplexity. K&R, early UNIX style, BSD is what I find "extremely beautiful".
- wsve 2y agoI work at Microsoft, so I'm biased, but C# may be my favorite language I've worked with compared to C++, Python, Type/JavaScript, Java, C, etc. I see/hear jokes often that it's Microsoft Java, and yeah definitely granted that it comes from the same origins, but it's got some of the greatest tools I've worked with, best documentation, and best support I've seen. Anytime I've asked myself "Can I do this with C#?", the only times the answer has been "no" is when looking for a C++ constexpr equivalent (closest you get is build-time code-gen, which ain't half bad), or discriminated unions (inexplicably). I'm convinced that anyone who complains about C# has never used it.
- cedws 2y agoThink Steve Jobs once said something to the effect of Microsoft having no taste. I think I’d agree. Inconsistent design language, inconsistent values, inconsistent vision.
- vijaybritto 2y agoYet they've had astounding success and is the most widely used operating system. Maybe usability and ease of access are far more important than beautiful design
- marcellus23 2y agoDesign _is_ usability and ease of access.
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- AtlasBarfed 2y agoShockingly, monopolies and entrenchment in software is SUPER EFFECTIVE. While MS isn't utterly technically bereft obviously, and they had some correct choices like backward compatibility and usability relative to imbeciles like IBM, just look at the botched execution of Win8, their security disasters, and generally superior products that got nudged out by beta-ware quality releases.
- d3nj4l 2y agoYou can succeed despite poor taste, but that doesn't make your taste any less poor.
- sriram_malhar 2y agoI think it is marketing and sales muscle that leads to ease of access.
- canucker2016 2y agoIf you think their fonts are ugly now, you should go back and look at the pre-Windows 3.x fonts. But you also have to realize they were saddled with CGA/EGA as their target display adapters back then.
- genewitch 2y agoI don't have any problems with the way Windows looks. I'd ask you what operating system looks better. And if the answer is macOS, I'd agree with you, I'd say yes, a painting can be pretty too, and about as useful as macOS.
- userbinator 2y agoEarly Windows looked good, but not anything Win8 or newer.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoI don’t see how windows has any form of prowess over macOS. I find the latter much better for my usecase.