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> I guess one challenge with this is that old school Win32 doesn't really support anything resembling automatic / responsive layout. It gives you all the building blocks to impleme…

> The latest UI framework (XAML/WinUI) sits on top of a better rendering architecture (compositor) that itself wraps DirectX tech. WinUI/UWP still uses CreateWindowEx and good old …

If you drop something, then you need some kind of replacement for that. I don't see any alternative on where entire OS could be configured other than registry.

> I mean, it's an early leaked build. I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced, which is why it hasn't been updated at all. I really hope that _rep…

> Meanwhile, the big open-source desktop C++ libraries (Qt and WxWindows) still don't fully take advantage of the types and features in the standard library in 2021. Of course not.…

Sorry, my bad. They already started rewriting core components in Rust. Here you go: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

If you start from scratch, I'd suggest to use MSIX [0] instead. It makes auto update trivial to implement with PackageManager.UpdatePackage(url_to_your_msix)[1] or plain execute vi…

To prevent half assed refactoring in the first place where only namespaces and classes get refactored while folders and filenames remain as they were. It would just further confuse…

In case of the Dropbox please read this: _But as the company grew, new engineers who joined couldn’t understand the code. Clever code is usually short and cryptic, written by and f…

No, he is in need of writing production quality software together with his medium to big sized dev team and he doesn't want to introduce maintenance burden into his project 10 year…

Of course you can write anything in R but that doesn't mean it will be possible to maintain the codebase for the next 10 maybe 20 years including dev team changes. In other words R…

Old one yes. New one (since win vista) allows you to pick folders. pFileOpen->SetOptions(FOS_PICKFOLDERS | FOS_PATHMUSTEXIST | FOS_ALLOWMULTISELECT); https://docs.microsoft.com/en-…

Which VM software did you use under windows?

> So... it's both NTFS and the Windows "subsystems." Ok, probably both on default windows installation due legacy and backward compatibility with dos names [1]. https://docs.micros…

> so what's the 'Windows way' then? Using either memory mapped files of overlapped io (IOCP). It's tricky to use when you want to write the content since you must preallocate the f…

It's possible to interact with native windows tooling from WSL. Example: $ echo "test" > test.txt & notepad.exe test.txt

This is the correct answer. Myth that NTFS is slow should already go away. You can already run windows on top of BTRFS if you want but it'll be painfully slow compared to linux [1]…

> the bottleneck is that NTFS is a crappy filesystem. Care to explain why do you think NTFS is crap? From my experience it's usually bad assumptions about files under windows and e…

> This ad appeared only when our devices were set to use Google Chrome and Firefox as the default web browser. I have new edge as default browser and I still got this screen. This …

Yes, I agree. What I meant was for mobile phone manufacturers who don't upstream their code portions and abandon it after a while due increased costs of maintaining the multiple ve…

> They can just ship a custom kernel only to their users and leave it at that. Works really well for Google and Android where they offload handpicked versions of the Linux kernel t…

You're supposed to use APIs provided by mesa (OpenGL, OpenCL) or TensorFlow and similar ML Frameworks which then talk to D3D12 or DirectML as seen on linked diagrams. It makes zero…

They also cannot be used from applications directly since they're just implementation detail inside mesa.

I'm pretty sure I ran vulkan apps via RDP and they worked fine. I think it was also on GTX 960.