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Besides the fact that you're simply not right (COM, MFC, ATL, SWF, WPF, etc are all deprecated yet still supported and maintained), how is this on topic?
Shit WPF is deprecated, whats the Microsoft preferred way to writes GUI apps on the desktop?
As the article talk mentions it as well; I wonder how good it scales for long running binaries and how well it integrates with stuff like .net native. I mean doing artificial demos on a dll is cool, but how well will it scale for say tracing bug in say a key-value store than runs for days and then crashes.
What I personally do not enjoy as a developer about MS products is that eventually they hit end of life and you are left hanging. With open source stuff, if the project is used enough there will always be some maintainer.
It seems to me like it’s the other way around. Microsoft keeps comparability forever, which also has tons of negative consequences. With Linux it seems almost like you have to recompile everything anew for each system and each updates, where tiny differences in distributions can break things.
For your own applications you will most likely use a container anyways and that gives you fairly reproducible builds.
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It seems to me like it’s the other way around. Microsoft keeps comparability forever, which also has tons of negative consequences. With Linux it seems almost like you have to recompile everything anew for each system and each updates, where tiny differences in distributions can break things.
Depends on your choice of distribution. Some distribution will distribute compiled binaries for each architecture. And there are flatpaks that are distribution agnostic. For your own applications you will most likely use a container anyways and that gives you fairly reproducible builds.
Thanks.
What I personally do not enjoy as a developer about MS products is that eventually they hit end of life and you are left hanging. With open source stuff, if the project is used enough there will always be some maintainer.
Besides the fact that you're simply not right (COM, MFC, ATL, SWF, WPF, etc are all deprecated yet still supported and maintained), how is this on topic?
Very cool. I seem to recall geohot doing similar to TTD in the past?
What I personally do not enjoy as a developer about MS products is that eventually they hit end of life and you are left hanging. With open source stuff, if the project is used enough there will always be some maintainer.
It seems to me like it’s the other way around. Microsoft keeps comparability forever, which also has tons of negative consequences. With Linux it seems almost like you have to recompile everything anew for each system and each updates, where tiny differences in distributions can break things.
If a product is deprecated, it may not receive security updates or fixes and such. As a user that puts you in a tough situation.
Unfortunately as a user there's not a lot you can do to influence the governance of those products or try to do something to keep them around. If the vendor decides to sunset a product that's it. That's all I am trying to say.