Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#1

Post by Shinkirou » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
blogs.windows.com

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#2

Post by anonlastname » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC

This is the most trivial program on the entire OS. Hooray for Microsoft, I guess.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#3

Post by Zekio » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 6:47 PM UTC

anonlastname wrote: post #2

This is the most trivial program on the entire OS. Hooray for Microsoft, I guess.

it is a good first step, now they just gotta keep walking down this line

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#4

Post by nathell » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

anonlastname wrote: post #2

This is the most trivial program on the entire OS. Hooray for Microsoft, I guess.

Most trivial? Not by a long shot. What about WINVER?

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#5

Post by nathell » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

Whoa, it appears to be written in C++/CLI. I wonder how much Windows code also is, and how it impacts maintainability.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#6

Post by valleyjo » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

I worked on a win32 application for my first job out of college. My boss told me "want to learn win32 and c++, go program a windows calculator clone." It was a great project to get started and I did learn a lot. Now I have something to compare my work to ha

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#7

Post by turrini » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator#data--telemetry

"This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Telemetry is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_TELEMETRY build flag."

Even on a simple calculator.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#8

Post by jchw » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

This is really cool! I thought the open sourcing of Winfile was cool too.

I hope they continue down this road. I doubt we'll see the NT Kernel on GitHub in my life time... but, one can dream.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#9

Post by ocdtrekkie » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

Awesome seeing another component of Windows (albeit a small one) shifting to open source. My hope is that over time, more and more components will end up open source as they get updated and rewritten.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

#10

Post by Titanous » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

In case anyone is wondering what telemetry is collected: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...