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>In other words: Microsoft thinks it knows what developers want better than they do.

Haven't they always? .NET is riddled with "safety" features like sealed classes that make programming a living hell.

> .NET is riddled with "safety" features like sealed classes that make programming a living hell.

Java already had `final` classes (which are the exact same thing, as far as I know).

And there's a school of OO thought in which classes should only be inheritable if built for inheritance (so not only should final/sealed be available, it should be the default).

Sealed classes, oh the humanity. You should maybe have a lie down.

By the way, WebGL doesn't work in my Chrome install (10.0.648.205, ubuntu). Is it something that I need to switch on?

I’m not sure about the Linux sitation but generally you need to make sure you’ve got up-to-date drivers before it’ll activate.

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