miffy900

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by miffy900 2y ago
> Apple is already supporting Swift on other platforms, however, developer experience is not as good as on macOS and I don't think that can/will be solved by Apple Yes it can. It's just Apple can't be bothered - most
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by miffy900 2y ago
> Very often, especially in startups, when the new app is created, it is first created for iOS and then for Android. Having proper Swift support would reduce effort for bringing apps to Android/Windows. I mean, this is just absurd l
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by miffy900 2y ago
This isn't the first Swift implementation ported to Windows. RemObjects Silver has had swift on windows (as in, develop and build/run on Windows) for at least a few years now, though it's not open source. https://w
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by miffy900 2y ago
> why Microsft has ceased anything beyond legacy support for it That is not true at all. DirextX is COM, UWP was COM based, WinRT is still COM, WinUI and the Windows App SDK is again based on COM. C++, C#, Python and Rust are all support
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by miffy900 2y ago
MSVC is not LLVM based, but C++ MSbuild projects can optionally use clang/LLVM as the C++ compiler instead of MSVC. Microsoft is still actively maintaining MSVC
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by miffy900 2y ago
> JNI worked it just wasnt as ergonomic as it could have been - which was on purpose There's a reason they're calling it the 'FFM' API and not JNI v2. The API devs were correct in rethinking the approach to native int
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by miffy900 2y ago
> This is similar, except more boilerplate and much, much slower. That's JNI, which really was truly terrible. Java 22 introducing FFM is finally an admission that JNI was crap and a dead end.
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by miffy900 3y ago
The YT title was 'The worst product I've ever reviewed...for now.' It doesn't mention Humane or the AI Pin, there's also no brand logo in the thumbnail. Just a pic of the device itself. If you had no foreknowledge o
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by miffy900 3y ago
The tweet in question I'm guessing you're referring to is this: > I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. > Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibil
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by miffy900 3y ago
> "Multiply an insane amount of stuff" is not an interesting point in complexity-safety-performance space. So in other words, Java is bad at scaling a basic math operation like multiplication? > "In many ways Java is ru
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by miffy900 3y ago
So I'm someone who's lurked /r/politics on Reddit since its early days (2008), I'm convinced the reason it is so left leaning is because right wingers in general took too long to start using the internet. If you wer
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by miffy900 3y ago
What you've written does nothing to disabuse any reasonable person of the notion that LLMs cannot reason; if anything you've explained how LLM's reason, not that they cannot do it.
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by miffy900 3y ago
> Maybe some people do not learn from their mistakes :)? Maybe some people do learn, and in this case it's Microsoft, who are not repeating the same thing with Blazor as they did with Silverlight.
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by miffy900 3y ago
SwiftUI is just it's own distinct nightmare, and only supported on one platform. MAUI is meant to be cross platform so it makes perfect sense to use a neutral language that isn't tied to a specific programming language.
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by miffy900 3y ago
> Christian Laettner is quite clear that Swift was a reinventation of Objective-C, and most Objective-C 2.0 improvements and latter ones, were already with Swift interoperability in mind. Yeah, I'm sure he said that at the outset in
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by miffy900 3y ago
They tried to reinvent C++, when really they should've reinvented C and sprinkled Obj-C classes and protocols on top.
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by miffy900 3y ago
No it's YAML's fault - the fact that type coercion was once part of the serialization spec and not part of an adjacent schema spec is a tragic mistake. Now there's a bunch of outdated parsers that exhibit the issue and some t
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by miffy900 3y ago
It's also sad that they're even considering this. They first considered this 20+ years ago before they launched the first Xbox; it was more plausible back then, compared than now, considering Nintendo's strengths with the Swi
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by miffy900 3y ago
Yeah but by virtue of MS having already acquired AB, the FTC would be less likely to approve a Nintendo acquisition.
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by miffy900 3y ago
> You’re welcome to go work at a software union shop, like Boeing. > Writing low quality software that kills people, great job security even if you are at fault for peanut pay. I’ll take my non union job any day. Boeing primarily manu
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by miffy900 3y ago
That wasn't the main reason though - UIKit v1.0 was pretty barebones not because they needed more time, but Jobs vetoed work on it for so long because he genuinely thought native apps were a bad idea.
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by miffy900 3y ago
The way generics are implemented is definitely not the reason why the CLR has a non-existent language ecosystem. The real reason is because .NET Framework for years was a Microsoft/Windows-only thing, and is still perceieved that way d
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by miffy900 3y ago
React definitely did not copy WPF. It copied XHP: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction which was another Facebook thing, but that itself was inspired by E4X: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by miffy900 3y ago
I'm very pessimistic; MS tried this back in 2012 with Windows 8. Everything from Windows to SharePoint to Office and Visual Studio tried to adopt the whole Metro design stuff, but they ended up creating many inconsistencies. They made
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by miffy900 3y ago
I'm on a 12th gen Intel i5 4 p-cores and 8 e-cores, 16-thread, 16GB RAM Lenovo laptop and it's lagging. Poor showing on MS's part that their flashy new design system is this slow.
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by miffy900 4y ago
Yes it was better than 8.0, but 8.x definitely did not sell as well as Windows 7. Windows 7 got 3 years of ESU (extended security updates), which MS did not bother with Winodws 8 because there wasn't the install base worth the effort (
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by miffy900 4y ago
And yet, Obama has: - ZERO indictments, unlike Trump - ZERO impeachments, unlike Trump Also none of Obama's lawyers have ever been tried + convicted of a crime either, unlike Trump.
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by miffy900 4y ago
'The world' in this case also includes a large portion of java programmers; it takes years for Java programmers to adopt new language features, if they do so at all. They're almost as bad as C++ devs. And if you consider the
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by miffy900 4y ago
> How do the costs of running the .NET 7 codebase compare with running something open? .NET has been open source since .NET Core 1 in 2017. The source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/dotnet/
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by miffy900 4y ago
> Also, one might hope that a freeware GUI editor will see the light in not too long. Have you tried Inkscape for editing SVGs? It’s more of an Adobe Illustrator wannabe but it’s not half bad.

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