Fun and sad. Garbage collected languages like .NET, Java, and Go are slow compared DIY languages like C, Rust, and Swift. So, no wonder the Windows team dislike them. However, it seems the Windows team had to live with a React start menu for quite some time. How does that fit into the over all battle between the teams and UI frameworks?
That wasn't the issue. The problem was that most of Windows system utilities are not managed, but the WPF move was trying to make a patchwork quilt of managed vs. unmanaged utilities, making the entire system very difficult to reason about and introducing regressions constantly. From the Windows Team's perspective, the .NET people just made a mess out of everything they touched.
Perhaps if WPF really did stay at the presentation level, or used VMs or something to keep it away from the Windows core, it would have panned out better. But is it goes with "paradigm shifts", when a company thinks it has a great idea, it wants to suddenly do that great idea everywhere.
For me the show was a trip down memory lane in more than one way. The tech is one. Doing startups with friends is another. Being a workaholic and having relationships is yet another. The penultimate episode hit me hard - am I the only one?
Let's all install this and form a fail-safe (if you are in a populated area) and unregulated mesh. I would love to see how far into the Amazonas or Greenland it works.
I don't know the bumble app, but it really annoys me that I cannot copy text in reddit and facebook (I am forced to use this app by my daughters hobby). If you dev a mobile app - make sure users can select and copy text!
This is a very interesting article. The concept "run an experiment in your head and predict the outcome" is a capability that AIs must have to attain some kind of general intelligence. Anyway, read the article, it's great.
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