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by sally1620 6y ago
There are a lot of these type of articles that conclude that "we", the developers, need to fix this problem. But if you read the original article by Prof. Wirth, it is not up to "us". It is the reality of the software in
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by sally1620 6y ago
VSCode team's highest priority is Javascript/Typescript, everything else is just trailing behind. Python and C++ are the very well supported ones. .NET is still really bad.
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by sally1620 6y ago
Technical advancements are always held back by politics. This is one of the main advantages of GPL, there is no CLA to sign.
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by sally1620 6y ago
"cross-platform" software that only runs on Linux and Windows.
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by sally1620 7y ago
Apple definitely doesn't have monopoly over anything. They are popular, but their market share doesn't put them in a monopoly category. And of course Apple doesn't like cross-platform Apps, especially PWAs. Because how else w
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by sally1620 7y ago
Runs on a platform is very different from "officially supported"
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by sally1620 7y ago
Testing your own code is quite a conflict of interest. Of course you are going to make sure that all your tests pass. And argue that the corner cases that you didn't test will never happen in production.
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by sally1620 7y ago
Most of monorepo tools for Mercurial are upstreamed already and are available in a standard Mercurial install. I don't think anyone in this thread is CTO of a company size of Facebook. For a medium size company, you can easily use Merc
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by sally1620 7y ago
That is actually one of the advantages of the BSDs. Kernel and base system are in one repo and released together. It simplifies development and testing. and an easier upgrade for end-users.
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by sally1620 7y ago
What author misses is that multi-repo is also not dumbass proof. Our team of about 60 people owned about 5-6 git repos that compiled into one SO. Every simple bug fix required multiple diffs to multiple repos. The real argument that the aut