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Maven (famous)@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

STOP WRITING C

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STOP WRITING C

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Maven (famous)@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • Lunya \ she/it@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    Does anyone even know what Windows is written in?

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      Originally Windows was written in assembly and ran on top of DOS, but since Windows 2000 and XP, it’s been exclusively running on the NT kernel, which is written primarily in C, with some C++ in there as well.

      The actual userspace is mostly C++ and C#.

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        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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          True! Their embrace of Rust is certainly heartening to see.

          Let’s just hope they don’t follow it up with the other two E’s in their typical playbook.

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            Please do go ahead and name the last open standard that Microsoft intentionally destroyed.

            EEE is the fucking boogeyman on Lemmy. You just mention it’s name and a bunch of nerds shit their pants and upvote.

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              Atom died about 13 months ago.

              Just because they’re in a relative lull in the desktop space doesn’t mean they’ve stopped.

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                There may be good examples out there, but I’d argue Atom isn’t one of them. VS Code was clearly intended to be a spiritual successor with MS branding IMO, it is a fork of Atom, and it is equally open source (MIT license).

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                Atom usage dropped off dramatically in favour of VS Code or the fully open source VS Codium, there’s no point in Github writing it’s own code editor when it’s hosting a much more popular, more powerful, and equally open source editor in one of its repos.

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                  Github had been funding development of Atom until MS bought them, put Atom on maintenance mode for 4 years, then killed it.

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                    Yeah, like I said, why would one company develop two direct competitors that are nearly identical instead of focusing on one?

                    Corporate consolidation tends to inheritly reduce competition / redundancy / resiliency, but that’s not the same thing as an EEE strategy that is out here trying to extinguish open source projects in replace of their proprietary version. In this case Microsoft is shutting down one redundant (in their minds) open source project to focus resources on their other more popular one that is also being offered completely for free and open source under an MIT license.

                    You can even use VSCodium if you want none of the Microsoft branding (or fork it yourself to customize it, like many of the other tech giants do). This isnt open source being shut out so much as the industry standardizing on a specific open source project.

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              I did upvote… but my pants are pristine

            • <optimized out> :v_trans: :v_bi:@social.lizzy.rs
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              @masterspace @entropicdrift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish#Examples_by_Microsoft

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                Unless I’m missing something, the most recent example there is from 2002 which, to my own horror, was more than 20 years ago.

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                2002?

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        And basically the entirety of dotnet 6 forward is spans. It’s all spans. All the way down.

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      witchcraft

      • Lunya \ she/it@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        Makes sense

        • getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml
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          C or C++ usually

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        yeah but which craft?

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      Well, you know those claims that Java runs on 18 trillion devices? How do you think they got there, hmmmmm?

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          On the other hand, C# is great

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