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by Kipters 6y ago
Both versions of Edge are used for webviews in native apps, removing it would break lots of them. Even not UWP ones, since both the Spartan webview and the new Chromium-based webview2 can be used in normal desktop apps too. For example, the
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by Kipters 6y ago
No, because technically it doesn't unset your default browser. It's default behavior in Windows 10 to ask the user to confirm the default handler for certain URI schemes after a new application capable of handling them is installe
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by Kipters 6y ago
That was WSL1, WSL2 is a micro-vm running the Linux kernel and whatever userland you want. Ubuntu is just the most advertised one, but all are equally unsupported by MSFT, support is provided by the distro "vendor"
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by Kipters 6y ago
What I've found to be most alien to people used to bash is that Powershell is fundamentally different because of its object-passing style instead of dealing with text streams, usually once someone gets a grasp on this their experience
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by Kipters 6y ago
It doesn't make it less true since there's discussion going on for upstreaming it, and someone linked the lkml thread here
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by Kipters 6y ago
Next? They're trying to upstream it
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by Kipters 6y ago
Some of these are fixed or there's progress being made: - IMHO PowerShell is not that bad, but the newer PowerShell Core works better and with WSL you can use your favorite linux shell (and mix and match Windows and Linux binaries) - W
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by Kipters 6y ago
Yep, WoA is only sold preinstalled in devices, you can't buy a copy (but you can install it yourself: https://github.com/WOA-Project )
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by Kipters 6y ago
> I don't think there is a standard BIOS for ARM like there is for x86, so multi-boot would probably require Microsoft to support Macs explicitly in Windows on ARM. Apple "just" needs to properly* support UEFI for Windows
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by Kipters 6y ago
Since they released their 2016 lineup there has been a shift from Macs to Linux and Windows (just look at how many "I left macOS for {X}" have been published here on HN) Windows is also making a very compelling argument with WSL2
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What Is Project Reunion?(github.com)
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by Kipters 6y ago
Yep, it also works fairly well. I'm maintaining a couple services at my day job that are designed to only work on Linux. VS Code is also involved because we're heavily using the Remote Development feature (which only works in MSFT
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by Kipters 6y ago
Full-blown VS is not available on Linux
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by Kipters 6y ago
I find it a bit ironic that WSL was born for supporting Android apps on Windows (Mobile)
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by Kipters 6y ago
IIRC Nat Friedman's words were something along the lines of "we'll keep developing it until there's enough people using it"
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by Kipters 6y ago
I doubt MS acquiring GitHub had a major role in Atom downfall. Atom's market share was already declining fast
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by Kipters 6y ago
Some of these changes are happening in the runtime itself, so many projects will get benefits just by updating to a newer version (something you would have to do anyway to get GC improvements). For example, System.Text.Json is the default i
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Xamarin releases iOS, Android and back end code for a contact tracing system(twitter.com)
1 points by Kipters 6y ago|0 comments
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by Kipters 6y ago
Most of .NET is moving towards avoiding heap allocations altogether, the latest versions improved a lot in that sense. A great example is the new System.Text.Json API, that can serialize/deserialize JSON documents up to 1 MB with 0 hea
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by Kipters 6y ago
> unlike most prototypes , this one wasn't thrown away I wish...
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YARP, a reverse proxy server built on the ASP.NET Core infrastructure(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by Kipters 6y ago
Something similar happened to me, some shop misprinted some flyers and put our landline number on them. We got calls for years and sometime we still get some (you can infer how much time has passed since by the fact I'm talking about a
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by Kipters 6y ago
If it works anything like Mono AOT (used in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android) you can probably annotate parts of your code to be preserved. A couple of days ago I found this though, it works using source generators and so it doesn't req
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by Kipters 6y ago
Isn't it? The UI is rendered using web technologies inside a specialized browser and it's written in a web-specific language. I might consider an electron app an hybrid app (that leans heavily towards the web side), but for sure n
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by Kipters 6y ago
UWP apps block requests to localhost too for the same reason
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by Kipters 6y ago
I can see Gtk stuff in the repo. Anyway, Scott Hanselman just told live that they'll look into Linux support after getting macOS and Windows running
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by Kipters 6y ago
You have to do it anyway if you're using Electron
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by Kipters 6y ago
Or you could use languages that allow you to share code, so you have 6 thin native UI layers on top of a shared cross-platform core with all the business logic and most interactions with the external world. You can do it today with C# and
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by Kipters 6y ago
Except stop talking for the entirety of the flight
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by Kipters 6y ago
Keep in mind the device "lapability" improved a lot in the subsequent iterations, for two reasons: - the kickstand is now freely adjustable, you can set it at any angle (there are no pre-determined stops) - the keyboard "stic

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