WPF as well
I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.
Readit Newsmemsom commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek
memsom commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek
No kidding - kind of wild that winforms is still kind of a gold standard experience today! I actually liked VB Forms - lots of easy rapid application development was possible.
Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for most of its life.
memsom commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek
memsom commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek
> MVC is not .NET of course.
MVC is a design pattern, ASP.NET MVC is a framework that used MVC as its go to pattern. But MVC is not in any way only ASP.NET MVC. There are plenty of other UI frameworks that use MVC and the Wikipedia article lists a lot of them for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93con...
A lot of good news recently for swift. I am a bit jealous as my go to language C# / .NET is recently not announcing fancy things.
I really like swift going beyond Apple. Particularly the port to android is IMHO crucial, however, now they are in the UI cross platform hell. Let us see if Apple is playing this better than Microsoft. Unfortunately, I have little hope. The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are react native and flutter which are both UI toolkits first and language second. Which I find gruesome.
> The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are [...] and flutter
I wouldn't really call Flutter "native".
I don't have a strong enough grasp of where React Native is at now. It was severely lacking when I looked at it circa 2018. But then we needed to call in to our own native code libraries, so we were probably quite niche.
Xamarin.Forms worked well enough, but the transition to MAUI has been full of woe and even more bugs and weird edge case functionality than Xamarin had.
memsom commented on Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-... · Posted by u/doener
I wonder how much faster the ARM2 would have been compared to the 68k in a first-generation Amiga. The Amiga's chip memory only delivered 7 MBytes/s, shared between the CPU and the chipset! With its 32-bit instruction words, the ARM2 would have been very far from its theoretical performance.
Well - I used Archimedes computers with ARM2 and owned an Amiga 500+ and honestly, I couldn't tell you the Arcie was faster. It certainly didn't have the custom chips, so it is probably not a fair comparison.
memsom commented on Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer dcmlr.inf.fu-berlin.de/ro... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Advent of computing podcast did a series on his computers, of which this is a link to one of the episodes: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=170d60ae-c534-46f6-968b-...
memsom commented on An opinionated critique of Duolingo isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025... · Posted by u/agnishom
I think the thing I dislike about Duolingo is it sort of catches the casual person into a trap by misleading them into thinking that by using this app they'll learn another language. It's not that it's a bad app, it's just that that's not going to happen. There's no one resource that will get you to even an intermediate level in a language. And the State Department's FSI estimates are unfortunately pretty accurate for hours to fluency [1].
For me to put a foundation for French down it was: Assimil for about 6 months (30 min/day), 30 minutes of daily comprehensible input, and Anki & Clozemaster for vocabulary (~15-20 min/day). Mixed in there was a couple months on Yabla doing listening comprehension, some grammar study from Bescherelle books, and some tutoring on iTalki. After about maybe 9-12 months I could listen to RFI's broadcast targeted to learners [2], but even then I still needed to go to the transcription a lot at the beginning.
To mislead people into thinking that doing some vocab study for 30 min a day in Duolingo is going to get them anything beyond the most basic grasp of a language is kinda not cool.
[1] https://www.state.gov/foreign-service-institute/foreign-lang...
> I think the thing I dislike about Duolingo is it sort of catches the casual person into a trap by misleading them into thinking that by using this app they'll learn another language
But does it? I have learned other languages using it casually (one lesson a day on average.) Enough to read text in those languages and understand basic conversations. It is not getting you to B1, but it is getting you well in to the A's. If you do any type of additional study on the side, you can easily get to B1.
The main issue with Duo is the quality of the courses. It varies a lot. Some of the user maintained ones are fairly poor. Especially for the more niche languages.
memsom commented on Washi: The Japanese paper crafted to last 1000 years [video] bbc.com/reel/video/p0m4mg... · Posted by u/rmason
The Japanese paper culture is pretty wild. They use them to make fusuma (sliding doors), decorative strips, gift wrapping, etc. And like they say in the report they've done this since forever. There was once a time in history when the rest of the world was stuck using solid shutters instead of superior paper windows.
BTW the reporter looks like Cotten Hill if he was real, and actually fought in all those wars. I'm quite surprised they had him hosting the video. I'm curious what decisions led to this.
Inclusion. In the UK, especially on the BBC, there is a lot of inclusion. We don't tend to hide or limit people based on disabilities or differences. There is a fully blind guy that does a lot of political reporting for example. It can be a little bit box ticky some times, but if people of all walks of life are represented, differences are less outside of the norm, I guess?
Chiming in as a Brit: I m generally opposed to this.
I already have a passport and that is digitalised and universal. Why not just use that?
The UK has a bad habit of launching these programs and not being able to deliver on them.
We have had National Insurance numbers for a long time, these are used to track income tax payments and benefits. But that doesn’t work apparently. So I had to set up a Unique Tax Reference number. Just to do my tax return. This involved several letters back and forth. Actual paper sent in the post over several weeks. The government already have all the tax information they just need me to do 20h of work because they can’t keep their files straight.
They made a mess of that. So I now have an additional Unique Tax Reference number. 2 unique IDs…
And they are still getting my taxes wrong. And writing to me about other peoples taxes/benefits payments because they have similar names and live in the same municipality.
Also, I’ve never had any difficulty proving who I am online when I want to. And I should not need to do so anymore than I already chose to.
I half agree, but a passport is a mid sized paper book, and an ID card is plastic and credit card sized. A plastic card goes in my wallet. I do not want to carry my passport around with me - having done this previously in Europe (both to use as ID and to not leave it in the hotel room with no safe), it is very annoying.