You get to have a C# like language that compiles to native code and offers today what System C# did (which will never be available outside MSR walls) for systems programming.
Plus it has lots of metaprogramming goodies, without the C++ SFINAE craziness.
However it does have the caveat of using an old GC implementation and not much GUI related tools are available.
But for CLI or server side applications on UNIX, if you don't want to wait for CoreRT to become available or not found of Mono AOT, D might be worth a try.
2. If I get a functional OneDrive client for Linux before a functional CLI GoogleDrive client for Linux... I just feel like that says something. And I've used the other "community-provided" GDrive clients and have had problems with all of them.
Maybe I'm just the outlier, but I was curious about D until I learned that it was a proprietary language, and not run by the community. At that point, I just left it dead and moved on.
I'm not trying to shit on this project, but I know I would find it troublesome contributing to a project like this, when it's not even certain if I can get the compiler running on my Linux-distro of choice...
It is run by a community. The reference compiler isn't fully free, but GDC (compiler with GCC backend) and LDC (compiler with LLVM backend) are free/opensource.
While there are open compilers, how about the language design and how that evolves?
Is that also handled by the community, or do Walter and Andrei still rule supreme here? Control of the language is IMO much more important than control of a single compiler.
Been using this for months with mixed success. Used to crash all the time but ever since the last update the bugs seem to have been worked out. Great project
Well, this is a command line interface so it's not exactly the same. However, it's quick and easy and scriptable so it definitely gets the job done on Linux.
It's a curly-brace language with similarities to C/C++/Java, not surprisiing you can understand a lot of it. There's not much in the way of interesting algorithmics going on either; it's what I'd consider "business logic" code that mostly consists of function calls. In fact the code looks quite Java-ish.
It really sucks that the OneDrive for Business is a totally different setup. It's like reinventing the wheel rather than just enhancing login options but that's all on MS's side. :/
It's a result of two completely different teams creating a project at the same time, so the backend (at least in the past) were completely different. IIRC, onedrive for business originally used sharepoint on the backend, not sure if that's still the case. I'm sure someone from MS could enlighten us.
What I DON'T get is why they don't just pick a winner and move everyone's data over to said winner.
Like (or even more than) countries, corporations have no feelings, they have interests.
Microsoft is now mainly interested in being in Oracle's shoes. I would not be surprised if next year they had a Microsoft Linux, like Oracle has had an Oracle Linux for years now.
(What I would be surprised about is if next year there's an Xbox Two. That's probably the next part of the remaining consumer space to feel the cold.)
Though I am probably going to bite the bullet and start paying for something with full built in encryption. Obviously this will cost more as Google, OneDrive, etc. take a loss on the storage costs, making it back via data mining, ads, and product upsells.
The proverbial final straw was Windows 10 slide-showing personal pics hijacked from my phone on my start menu at a client site. Who knows if it would happen on the lock screen, too, since they've turned Pro edition, even, into a conumption and ad platform instead of a business class OS.
I have told Android OneDrive to NOT auto upload pics from my phone a least a dozen times, yet it still gives not a shit.
rclone (http://rclone.org) supports one drive too and runs under Linux.
Like this tool it doesn't support One drive for business though. Microsoft have made it very difficult for open source programs to use one drive for business as far as I can see. It has the most complicated registration procedure I've ever seen - even Microsoft admit it is too complicated!
It's because OneDrive for business is a completely unrelated tool under the hood with no relation to OneDrive except a deluded manager somewhere feels responsible for both.
rclone is great. Thanks to its use of multi-threading you can download and upload pretty much at line speeds. It would be even better if it provided file-delta type operations, but maybe this is a limitation of OneDrive itself.
I really should put some time aside to write a script I've been thinking about:
1) Poll [somefolder] every 10 seconds (or whatever). Or watch with inotify.
2) On change, wait [5 seconds] and if change remains the same...
3) `borg create [oneDriveRepo]::[somefolder]` (does a delta backup with deduplication and lz4 compression, can be FUSE-mounted, and can be encrypted).
I don't know why people keep offering "unlimited" plans on anything, when they should know that someone will keep pushing it until they find out what the limit ought to have been.
It makes sense for some things, when measuring it would be more trouble than it's worth. The first website I ever made was hosted by a two man garage company that offered unlimited* bandwidth.
Even if you've got a measuring system in place, it helps figure out what would be a reasonable limit that works for 99% of your users.
*as long as you don't negatively affect other users.
Nice too see an alternative for linux since OneDrive is probably has the best pricing out there. I used to be an SpiderOak customer but has switched to OneDrive since it's better in several ways and half the price for the same storage.
It's nice to have auto-upload for my photos taken on my phone. I wish SpiderOak made their client simpler to use since last time I tried it was kind of confusing GUI even for me as a programmer.
OneDrive doesn't do file versioning, which makes it useless for backup. Get a ransomware on your PC then watch in horror as your cloud storage is useless for recovering your files. SpiderOak may have a clumsy UI, but it keeps historical versions of your files. Dropbox keeps versions for a month and they have an add-on for a year. Even Google Drive keeps versions for a month. OneDrive is basically the poorest choice you can make.
Well, time to test this out and see if it really is as smooth as advertised but if everything configures right, this might enable me to go back to the 1TB that I get through my work savings.
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Plus it has lots of metaprogramming goodies, without the C++ SFINAE craziness.
However it does have the caveat of using an old GC implementation and not much GUI related tools are available.
But for CLI or server side applications on UNIX, if you don't want to wait for CoreRT to become available or not found of Mono AOT, D might be worth a try.
2. If I get a functional OneDrive client for Linux before a functional CLI GoogleDrive client for Linux... I just feel like that says something. And I've used the other "community-provided" GDrive clients and have had problems with all of them.
Maybe I'm just the outlier, but I was curious about D until I learned that it was a proprietary language, and not run by the community. At that point, I just left it dead and moved on.
I'm not trying to shit on this project, but I know I would find it troublesome contributing to a project like this, when it's not even certain if I can get the compiler running on my Linux-distro of choice...
Is that also handled by the community, or do Walter and Andrei still rule supreme here? Control of the language is IMO much more important than control of a single compiler.
What I DON'T get is why they don't just pick a winner and move everyone's data over to said winner.
Yep, it's still sharepoint on the backend.
Microsoft is now mainly interested in being in Oracle's shoes. I would not be surprised if next year they had a Microsoft Linux, like Oracle has had an Oracle Linux for years now.
(What I would be surprised about is if next year there's an Xbox Two. That's probably the next part of the remaining consumer space to feel the cold.)
Though I am probably going to bite the bullet and start paying for something with full built in encryption. Obviously this will cost more as Google, OneDrive, etc. take a loss on the storage costs, making it back via data mining, ads, and product upsells.
The proverbial final straw was Windows 10 slide-showing personal pics hijacked from my phone on my start menu at a client site. Who knows if it would happen on the lock screen, too, since they've turned Pro edition, even, into a conumption and ad platform instead of a business class OS.
I have told Android OneDrive to NOT auto upload pics from my phone a least a dozen times, yet it still gives not a shit.
Like this tool it doesn't support One drive for business though. Microsoft have made it very difficult for open source programs to use one drive for business as far as I can see. It has the most complicated registration procedure I've ever seen - even Microsoft admit it is too complicated!
Same with Skype and Skype for Business.
I really should put some time aside to write a script I've been thinking about:
1) Poll [somefolder] every 10 seconds (or whatever). Or watch with inotify.
2) On change, wait [5 seconds] and if change remains the same...
3) `borg create [oneDriveRepo]::[somefolder]` (does a delta backup with deduplication and lz4 compression, can be FUSE-mounted, and can be encrypted).
4) rclone -> [oneDriveRepo] -> onedrive.
And the reverse in the other direction I guess.
https://blogs.office.com/2015/11/02/onedrive_changes/
Even if you've got a measuring system in place, it helps figure out what would be a reasonable limit that works for 99% of your users.
*as long as you don't negatively affect other users.
It's nice to have auto-upload for my photos taken on my phone. I wish SpiderOak made their client simpler to use since last time I tried it was kind of confusing GUI even for me as a programmer.
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/14478
Why a Makefile instead of Dub?
Also why disabling the bounds checking? Have you proven with a profiler that it really produces a noticeable impact for the user?