dcgudeman

I agree it is strange take but unfortunately when you view everything through some sort of "big corp conspiracy" lense you end up with ideas like this. It's super common on hacker news. Tiresome but ever present.

The most logical explanation would be something like "they released this product because they were making a huge effort to get C# to be a truly cross platform language but the mac adoption remained low so they decided to retire this product and focus more on VS code which has massive adoption on mac"

But that would be too aligned with most developers priorities so it is not even on the radar for most people.

If anyone is wonder about the Microsoft Edge situation feel free to investigate the "licensing issue" referenced in this StackOverflow thread:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75459594/why-doesnt-edge...

Although the thread is about AVIF (the image format based on AV1) I bet the same licensing issues are also holding back AV1 on edge.

Although this thread is about AVIF (the image format based on AV1) it claims that Edge is not supported due to licensing issues:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75459594/why-doesnt-edge...

I bet the same licensing issues are also holding back AV1 on edge.

Is that what he is suggesting? I thought the article just wanted people to use UInt8Array instead of buffer.

"victim of venture capital", who do you expect to fund such a risky business?

keep who out?

Honest question: Why do people think Microsoft buying Activision is bad?

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Seriously? You consider people who resist technological advancement "heros"? Do you not work in tech? Why are you on hacker news? I honestly don't understand the motivation of anti-technology people who frequent hacker news. It makes no sense to me.

why?

How do you know that?

If you really believe that Amazon will be materially impacted by this your should take a short position in the stock.

No, this hysterical reaction to what was normal only a couple years a ago will fade and business will return to normal.

Ok why is the DOJ looking into it lol?

Both? These government organizations really have taken a partisan turn. It is really disheartening to see this level of political motivation to target "companies/persona non grata".

Can you explain a bit more?

It’s sad to see this happen to be honest. Seems like Jet Brains is getting distracted from their core value proposition: good IDEs. If electron based IDEs are becoming more responsive and performant than their “native” IDEs they have major priority problems.

I noticed that the hack blog (https://hhvm.com/blog/) basically stopped posting updates since the end of 2022. As downstream users of hacklang development have you folks noticed a change in development pace or ambition within the hack development team?

Are you seriously asking this question? A quick googling shows that Uber is by far the largest ridesharing company by revenue, $31 billion in 2022. Bolt has revenue of $1.3 billion. For you to ask that shows that you are insincere in your analysis of this subject or deeply ignorant.

Does it really require an explanation? All you have to do is observe that literally everyone besides a few free software zealots use "non-free" operating systems. What company is developing consumer linux computers for retail sale? If someone even wanted to buy one they would have to really look. There are many unknowns about what programs will run on linux. Will a buyer encounter a situation where they are literally blocked from doing what they need to do because they are using a fringe operating system? There are a million services that have integrations into these operating systems that would go out the window with linux. And this doesn't even begin touch the entire ecosystem of enterprise device management. But yeah maybe it's the UX. Just a couple more polished features in GNOME and then Walmart will roll out an entire fleet of new linux computers for their financial department! And grandma will finally switch over to that sweet FOSS laptop! And genz will drop their nice macbook pros and get on a nice fedora laptop! Just one more UX release.

because I want companies to inform me about cool things they are releasing? I thought that was the point of these events… but feel free to correct my assumption.

If you think that UX polish is the reason why "mainstream" people use microsoft/apple products over linux you are really deluding yourself.

why is it bad for them to market their products?

what exactly is "the spirit" of X11?

I wonder why more people aren't talking about this

How is C# locked in? It's pretty well supported on linux and mac.

Where was that discussion held? I'd like to read what people were thinking.

Can I ask what you use LXD for?

Switch currently supports Vulkan but could drop it?

> I’ve been a developer for a decade now and never run into an issue where JavaScript’s loosely typed nature has created a problem for me.

yeah... ok