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zeroc8 commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

jjordan · 13 days ago

Microsoft is progressively making everything an instance of Chrome. They've seemingly altogether given up the notion of native platform rendering. The win32 api for native ui elements hasn't been touched in two decades. There have been a few failed attempts to move on from it like Siverlight, WinForms, UWP, LightSwitch, etc, but they never bothered to revisit their native UI library. So now everything is a Chrome instance.

zeroc8 · 7 days ago

They should just buy Delphi from Embarcadero and make it available cheaply. And put Anders back in charge. Then maybe people would start writing proper native Win64 Software again...

zeroc8 commented on India and EU announce landmark trade deal bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/Palmik

skinnymuch · 14 days ago

That’s not true. Trump will be gone in a few years. Soft power and destabilizing many countries has done wonders for US hegemony.

zeroc8 · 14 days ago

I believe the damage is done and there will be no going back to the old ways. This time around I'm sensing a real change in attitude. People in Europe are sick and tired of all the US bullshit that's been going on for far too long. It's not just the lunatic in the White House. It's the whole system that's being rejected. The endless greed. The bigotry. The war on everything. Peaceful cooperation and coexistence, that's what we want. I'm for my part quite happy and optimistic about the deal with India and I hope more regions will follow soon.

zeroc8 commented on Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground fortune.com/2025/11/05/pa... · Posted by u/pedrodelfino

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

Skip indoctrination so that we can easier indoctrinate you...

zeroc8 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

jll29 · 2 months ago

I agree - Ada is very similar to Pascal, and much faster to pick up than, say, C++.

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

C++ is not that hard to pick up. But writing error free C++ code is hard as hell.

zeroc8 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

skepti2 · 2 months ago

> Ada and especially Spark makes it a whole lot easier to produce correct software.

Relative to what? There are formal verification tools for other languages. I have heard Ada/SPARK is good, but I do not know the veracity of that. And Ada companies promoting Ada have horses in the race.

And Ada didn't prevent the Ada code in Ariane 5 from being a disaster.

> The programming language is just a small piece of the puzzle. But an important one.

100% true, but the parent of the original post that he agreed with said:

> And the F35 and America's combat readiness would be in a better place today with Ada instead of C++.

What is the proof for that, especially considering events like Ariane 5?

And Ada arguably has technical and non-technical drawbacks relative to many other languages.

When I tried Ada some weeks ago for a tiny example, I found it cumbersome in some ways. Is the syntax worse and more verbose than even C++? Maybe that is just a learning thing, though. Even with a mandate, Ada did not catch on.

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

Well, readability, better typesafety, less undefined behaviour. In and out parameters, named parameters. Built in concurrency.

With C++ it's just too easy to make mistakes.

zeroc8 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

grougnax · 2 months ago

They should use Rust

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

It's not quite there yet: https://ferrocene.dev/en?ref=blog.pictor.us

zeroc8 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

billforsternz · 2 months ago

Semi serious idea: A lot of people (including me) write C++ but it's basically C plus a small set of really ergonomic and useful C++ features (eg references). This should be standardised as a new language called C+

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

That probably would see more success than the monster they've created. I've been out of the C++ world for a while, but I hardly recognize the language anymore.

zeroc8 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

skepti · 2 months ago

As I wrote to someone else:

Why require that companies use a specific programming language instead of requiring that the end product is good? > And the F35 and America's combat readiness would be in a better place today with Ada instead of C++.

What is the evidence for this? Companies selling Ada products would almost certainly agree, since they have a horse in the race. Ada does not automatically lead to better, more robust, safer or fully correct software.

Your line of argument is dangerous and dishonest, as real life regrettably shows.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88

> The failure has become known as one of the most infamous and expensive software bugs in history.[2] The failure resulted in a loss of more than US$370 million.[3]

> The launch failure brought the high risks associated with complex computing systems to the attention of the general public, politicians, and executives, resulting in increased support for research on ensuring the reliability of safety-critical systems. The subsequent automated analysis of the Ariane code (written in Ada) was the first example of large-scale static code analysis by abstract interpretation.[9]

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

Ada and especially Spark makes it a whole lot easier to produce correct software. That doesn't mean it automatically leads to better software. The programming language is just a small piece of the puzzle. But an important one.

zeroc8 commented on Programming peaked functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic

fullstackchris · 2 months ago

Agreed. If folks want to write java in elipse they are more than welcome to do so... dont understand these yelling at clouds posts really

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

Only if they found their own companies. Usually those decisions were already made for you.

zeroc8 commented on Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

throwaway7783 · 2 months ago

It is the programmer's job to learn what is going on. Java itself doesn't hide anything from you. You are free to write a servlet from scratch, or use a framework like Spring to hide everything. Your (company's) choice really.

People end up choosing something that has batteries included so they can focus on solving business problems. A programmer who will superficially understand SpringBoot without understanding how it works. Really, there is no magic there - its a few core concepts - annotations, bytecode enhancement and dynamic proxies. Maybe Im missing one or two. Everything else is built on top of this.

This is regardless of language/ecosystem. If I do not understand the fundamental concepts, I will never be successful in that ecosystem.

zeroc8 · 2 months ago

The layer in Go is much thinner, if I want to learn about a new concept or technology. Of course there is no magic, if you are willing to put the time in. The question is how much time is required.