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> What little new stuff they're putting out (e.g.: Visual Studio Code) is a tyre fire of low quality tools I have no idea why you would say this. VS Code is an incredibly popular and well-liked product.
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"Microsoft Teams" is present for in Settings -> Apps -> Apps & Features on Win11 for me. But given how they're integrating Teams into the OS, I wouldn't be surprised if I lose the ability to uninstall it soon.
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> ...which is very strange that MS seems to be continuing to rewrite stuff in it From what I understand, the thinking is something like: - There currently aren't any great alternatives for an attractive, touch-friendly, modern-looki
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It's complicated, but the short answer is that the Windows team messed up and there isn't really a good new native UI framework to migrate Regedit to. UWP was burdened with sandboxing+packaging requirements that made it very diffi
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Switched and came back after about 3 years (to zsh). Fish is nice in many ways, but it kinda lives up to its "A command line for the 90's" slogan. It's better than what came before it, but I'm not sure it's bet
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Nice! I recently gave up on Fish after 3 years of using it as my primary shell. It was nice, but not nice enough to make up for all the pains of being different from POSIX shells. Glad to see Fish improving on that in a small but concrete
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> Omnisharp craps the bed way too often. FWIW I've had a much better experience with OmniSharp since they shipped a version running on .NET 6 (opt-in with the "omnisharp.useModernNet" setting). YMMV but I need to restart i
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MAUI isn’t ready yet (it’s behind schedule), and it’s the new version of Xamarin Forms which nobody really likes. I think it’s a bit too early to say if it’s a great option.
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> now I see it's rust: how parallel is your build, really? Not the OP but I install a lot of Rust projects with Cargo and recently did some benchmarking on DigitalOcean's compute-optimized VMs. Going from 8 cores to 32 cores wa
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> An Arch user wants (and gets) the latest versions of all upstream software. My understanding was Arch versions often lag behind that of the latest binaries published on GitHub (based on only mucking around with Arch once); however when
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> Attempts to create modes of distribution that are even slightly different from maintainer-distribution (think Google Play) suck ass. I'm not sure Google Play is a great comparison here. Package managers like Homebrew and Scoop are
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How is DataTable an example of that? It’’s a class that’s usually used to hold the contents of a relational database table, nothing to do with UI.
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I enjoyed the article, thanks. I think you could add an entry to the "Languages suitable for single binary executables" section; these days, .NET (C#, F#) single-file applications work very well. This is a fairly recent developmen
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> There is a "PublishSingleFile" option, but that is just a zip file in disguise. I don't quite agree. These days (as of .NET 5), if you publish a single-file app all .NET libraries live in the executable and do not need t
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There's something nice about the ergonomics of a single file compared to a single folder though. A single file is trivial to distribute as-is; you don't even need to put it in an archive. You can put multiple single-file apps in a
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This is a little out of date; the .NET single-file situation is pretty good as of .NET 5 (which came out in 2020). These days, if you publish a single-file app all .NET libraries live in the executable and do not need to be unpacked at runt
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Ah, I think I see what's going on. It's trivial to precompile .NET code with ReadyToRun today, but the Thundra post was written before that was possible. And it looks like the post above forgot to enable ReadyToRun (see the commen
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I got started with Win32 programming 2 years ago using the 5th edition of Programming Windows. It's great, but it did feel like it was missing a few things. For example, it doesn't cover disk I/O at all. I found that Pavel Yo
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I use his Food Lab book a lot, and I think most of the recipes are very practical. There are a few over-the-top recipes but they're usually paired with easy versions. Like, you could make his bolognese recipe that takes a bajillion ing
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I'm curious why that is. I've spent a bit of time benchmarking startup for plain old executables, and .NET does OK there (even without AOT compilation). Not sure what would make it slower than other languages on Lambda. https:&#x
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There's been a lot of work happening to make WinForms trimmable. I think it will land in the upcoming .NET release (7) or the next one, I'm looking forward to being able to ship small WinForms apps with zero dependencies. https:&
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Yeah, I'm fond of the AppContainer sandbox in a way; I think most consumer applications can get by in a sandbox (my UWP app could), and sandboxing applications can be empowering for users since it lets them run more code without worr
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Yeah, it’s a mess. It seems like eventually they figured out that UWP’s sandbox+packaging requirements were a huge mistake (see Project Reunion/Windows App SDK), but that realization came much too late.
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UWP has been unofficially done for a few years now (no official statements, but you could tell from the lack of updates) and they officially shut the door on future updates 4 months ago. https://www.theregister.com/2021&#x2F
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> What if that C++ dev primarily uses visual C++ and Visual studios projects? What if the C++ dev primarily used Cmake, ninja, or scion (or any of the other thousands of C++ build tools). Then it's an opportunity for the candidate t
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I see this as similar to the "what happens when you visit google.com?" question - it's a starting point for conversation, not gotcha trivia. I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to know every answer off the top of their he
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Funny how you had to create a brand new account to post this.
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I think those things are true, and I live in Canada. I strongly support Trudeau's actions on this, and I'm sad that the government took so long to crack down on the "truckers". It's deeply damaging to civil societ
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I wouldn't say it's a giant runtime. A trimmed Hello World .NET app is ~11MB these days - not quite as good as Go, but you can make .NET apps that do quite a lot in under 20MB. And sizes will be going quite a bit lower with Nati
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Nice. That's basically my ideal work environment; if you happen to have an opening for a .NET developer who loves SQLite and databases in general, my contact info is in my profile.

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