Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 99 posts

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

#41

Post by throwaway13249 »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #32
throwaway13249 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just minor issues: You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the nagging associated with it). Whilst you can read /mnt/c/ you can't read virtual file systems such as Google drive stream /mnt/g/ is just empty. You need to do a bit of fuckery like pinning your ssh-agent to a known file socket and test this in your bash/zsh start…

>None of the intellij ecosystem If you're doing C or C++ development, CLion does support WSL compilers/debuggers.

It's all hacked in on intellij platform and reading their youtrack that their plan - each plugin bakes in WSL knowledge, where as VSCode basically launches a remote command proxy so it works the same weather WSL2 or a local vbox with ssh or a remote VPS and plugins dont need to change (or do so in a minor away). More an IntelliJ rant I guess

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

#42

Post by 29athrowaway »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #31
29athrowaway wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Nah. I, for one, am fed up with feeling as a third-class citizen every single day. I recently moved back to Windows after using Linux exclusively for five years. My opinion will probably prove unpopular here, but here goes: I have seen close to zero progress in making Linux a better desktop operating system in all this time, while MS has been doing solid work in making Windows a more development friendly environment.…

On the contrary, being able to tinker with absolutely everything is what makes me feel like a first-class citizen on Linux.

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

#43

Post by freeone3000 »

samsaga2 wrote: post #36
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 Terminal is nice but the windows command line is not. I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose. - WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program. And it does not have X. - Windows 10 drivers sucks. For example, Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs. - ClearType has been improved but Linux and Mac font aliasing is a lot better. - I cannot upgrade my laptop to the last Windo…

WSL2 works fine as an X client in my experience. If you want to run an X server on windows, vcxsrv works pretty well.

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

#44

Post by kbumsik »

scalanewaccount wrote: post #25
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…

I'm seriously considering moving back to Windows from Arch. I miss some software. Can you give some downsides of WSL2 so I know you're being impartial (I am) and to help me make a decision. I wasted a few days with WSL1 and don't want to repeat that.

WSL2 aren't shipped with systemd (or any other init processes) out of the box. So you, as an Arch user especially, will have much trouble managing Linux daemons.

If you are an embedded dev keep in mind that USB or any native devices on WSL2 is not supported.

If you are a web dev keep in mind that localhost is not available so that you need to figure out the IP address of WSL2.

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

#45

Post by y4mi »

kbumsik wrote: post #44
scalanewaccount wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seriously considering moving back to Windows from Arch. I miss some software. Can you give some downsides of WSL2 so I know you're being impartial (I am) and to help me make a decision. I wasted a few days with WSL1 and don't want to repeat that.

WSL2 aren't shipped with systemd (or any other init processes) out of the box. So you, as an Arch user especially, will have much trouble managing Linux daemons. If you are an embedded dev keep in mind that USB or any native devices on WSL2 is not supported. If you are a web dev keep in mind that localhost is not available so that you need to figure out the IP address of WSL2.

> If you are a web dev keep in mind that localhost is not available so that you need to figure out the IP address of WSL2.

Which sounds like a non-issue, but is actually quite annoying, as almost every unconfigured daemon binds to localhost...

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

#46

Post by dagw »

freeone3000 wrote: post #43
samsaga2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Windows Terminal is nice but the windows command line is not. I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose. - WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program. And it does not have X. - Windows 10 drivers sucks. For example, Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs. - ClearType has been improved but Linux and Mac font aliasing is a lot better. - I cannot upgrade my laptop to the last Windo…

WSL2 works fine as an X client in my experience. If you want to run an X server on windows, vcxsrv works pretty well.

Haven't tested WSL2, but used WSL as an X client quite a bit. It works, but performance is pretty terrible. It's fine for 'static' GUIs, but far from great for any sort of interactive graphics.

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

#49

Post by degski »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #33
guessmyname wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

Not the best decision I think, too much resemblance to the division assignment operator: x /= 10;

The last character guessmyname refers to is what '/=' looks like.

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

#50

Post by throwaway8941 »

samsaga2 wrote: post #36
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 Terminal is nice but the windows command line is not. I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose. - WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program. And it does not have X. - Windows 10 drivers sucks. For example, Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs. - ClearType has been improved but Linux and Mac font aliasing is a lot better. - I cannot upgrade my laptop to the last Windo…

>I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose.

    alias
>Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs

They suck everywhere. I've had nothing but problems with HD4600 on Linux. Frequent video player crashes, kernel lockups, glitches, the whole shebang.

>- ClearType has been improved but Linux ... font aliasing is a lot better.

I have the opposite experience. Depends on your display I guess.

>I would like to remove the task bar

You can remove it. I don't use and don't see it on Win10.

>- NTFS is getting old and it is very slow if you have a lot of small files.

It's not NTFS. NTFS by itself is plenty fast. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

Post reply on HN