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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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