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Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by tony »

Microsoft is just on a roll when it comes to open source.

- Windows Terminal is pretty solid, and fast. Dare I say, nearing rxvt-unicode/kitty speed. There are some remaining terminal corruption with tmux + vim sessions, but soon enough it'll be replacing hyper/conemu for me.

- WSL 2 alleviates file system issues that plagued WSL. I recently wiped debian off my Thinkpad because there's no point, I get everything I need from WSL 2. And I can start to dabble with learning C# / Visual Studio.

- https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim This thing, which has support for Unity and Unreal, and is MIT licensed

- VSCode: They ship a new feature release every month I guess? I was happy with it 1 year or two ago, but now they also have WSL 2 integration. This editor works across platforms on MacOS as well.

- Windows 10: Snapping, HiDPI, sound management, drivers just work, lots of apps in windows store, if not you have everything in chocolatey anyway. Steam, with all the games, at full speed. macOS is no longer clearly superior the consumer OS space. Windows 10 is better IMO.

The best part of Windows though is hardware choice. Unlike Apple where you're stuck with an expensive metal wedge, a keyboard you may not (or may!) like, that at least for me gets miserably slow after 3 years, in Windows-land you can pick Dell, Lenovo, HP, so on. You can build your own Desktop, and pick good quality components that last, that aren't soldered together wastefully. Generally speaking, it's more DIY / Hacker friendly.

Maybe Microsoft is getting stronger, or Apple is losing touch with open source stuff trying to push their app / boutique hardware business model. But without open source and standards, what will be left to sustain it all if/when their app/hardware market sours?

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by manigandham »

This is pretty neat. Here's the overview blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code/

FYI, there's also the "Input" font for coding: https://input.fontbureau.com/ and of course "Fira Code" which became popular for ligatures: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by 29athrowaway »

tony wrote: post #4

Microsoft is just on a roll when it comes to open source. - Windows Terminal is pretty solid, and fast. Dare I say, nearing rxvt-unicode/kitty speed. There are some remaining terminal corruption with tmux + vim sessions, but soon enough it'll be replacing hyper/conemu for me. - WSL 2 alleviates file system issues that plagued WSL. I recently wiped debian off my Thinkpad because there's no point, I get everything I ne…

Windows can be convenient, but what is the cost of your convenience?

- Fewer hardware manufacturers will publish drivers for other OSes.

- More computer manufacturers will sell computers with Windows preinstalled (and other preinstalled software that you will likely not want in your computer), making your computer more expensive and slower, and sometimes, less secure (search: eDellRoot).

- Fewer game publishers will publish cross-platform builds, even if they use cross-platform libraries. More publishers will prefer Windows-only libraries like DirectX instead of cross-platform alternatives like Vulkan.

- Fewer software vendors will create cross-platform software.

- Exposure to ads, forced updates, "telemetry" and analytics, and other forms of loss of control over YOUR computer.

- You will be rewarding Microsoft stockholders, including software villains from the 90s.

- If your country gets slammed with US sanctions, Microsoft can no longer sell you software (unless you decide to pirate it, be cut from updates, and be left vulnerable to Internet worms like WannaCry). Call it loss of cyber-sovereignty if you wish.

Now, about .NET... There are Linux builds of the .NET framework. You can use many IDEs to develop. But if you want an editors/IDEs, JetBrains Rider can be a good alternative to Visual Studio.

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by guessmyname »

degski wrote: post #8

Did anyone look at some code in Visual Studio with this font. You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font (C++), it's pretty cool [and I've never seen anything like it before]!

> You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font […]

For anyone curious, you can see it here [1] (check the last character).

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/ma...

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