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Lucky,

The new list initializing syntax is less boilerplate, no?

Lucky,

This is for custom collections, right? And you don’t even have to use it, you can keep using existing ctors for your custom collections

Worse case scenario you keep doing what we’ve always had to do. But for the 99% of use cases we get a much more streamlined initializer, with extensions to use our own.

I don’t see how that’s a bad thing

Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (ghuntley.com)

In this blog post, we explore the ecosystem of open-source forks, revisit the story so far with how Microsoft has been transforming from products to services, go deep into why the Visual Studio Code ecosystem is designed to fracture, and the legal implications of this design then discuss future problems faced by the software...

Lucky,

Vscode is beginning it’s enshittification cycle. They got everyone using it, now they start locking it down. Much of the fear is what Microsoft could do, not so much what they have done so far

The C# extension going proprietary is the smoke to the coming fire though, and highlights what could happen to other languages. The new extension cannot be installed on open source redistributions like vscodium. What happens now if the typescript extension gets a similar update? Or Python? Etc.

They’ve made it so technically anyone can spin off their own extensions marketplace, and attempt to make their own C#/typescript/Python extensions, but can they truly compete with Microsoft? That is the fracture the author is talking about. They’ve effectively made a walled garden out of an open source platform, they’ve just been playing nice to hook devs and companies in before the slow enshittification

Lucky,

Agreed. Their business model is transparent: we give them money, they give us good products

Lucky,

I’ve never had an issue with the dotnet CLI, including the commands you’re talking about. Their documentation is a bit scattered at times but for the most part they have examples on everything and walk through most scenarios.

I’m not a Microsoft employee either, just a c# dev of 10 years.

Lucky,

Specifically on Twitter and Reddit, this has led to a massive jump in federated social media. That seems like an advancement to me.

Lucky,

The argument for having tabs adjust depending on your ide sounds better than it is in practice. Someone formatting code to look nice with width 4 will look horrendous for someone who uses width 8.

Spaces makes it uniform and captures the exact style the original dev intended

Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)

I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...

Lucky,

They didn’t say anything about “forced simplicity”. Not everything is a slippery slope

Lucky,

In my opinion, pre-designing your code is generally a good thing. Hours of planning saves weeks of coding

I'm looking for a debugger for Windows after the Visual Studio one no longer works for me (kbin.social)

After a software update, VS2022 stopped working correctly. When I hit a break point, I don't get any local variables and their values, instead I get a "wait..." label that looks like a button, and also VS is growing in memory size until it crashes my Windows, or I either stop the debugging or VS itself....

Lucky,

Try deleting all obj and bin folders in the repo and restart VS. Sometimes it gets stuck on an old project reference and can’t clear out the cached files

Lucky,

To clarify for OP, the only time you need this at all is when the object has a reference to something that the garbage collector won’t dispose of naturally. Things like an open file stream, db connection, etc.

You won’t need to dispose of an object you created if it just has properties and methods

Lucky,

I’d imagine one of those killer features is using a language with a solid standard library. Npm dependencies are notoriously complex because js as a language is missing basic functionality that is standard in other languages. Just a few years ago the Internet broke because “pad left” was pulled by it’s maintainer, that simply doesn’t happen in other languages

From a maintenance perspective npm is a nightmare. From a security perspective it is worse. Being able to build your entire website using a language that eliminates most dependencies, and the ones you take on don’t pull in a zillion dependencies either, is absolutely a killer feature

Of course that isn’t the full story and using js still has it’s advantages as people have already pointed out. If wasm closes the gap in those areas then it would absolutely be worth the switch

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