> Not everything, no. You can't run C# without the .NET runtime You can compile C# to an AOT exe, and when you do that it will literally only be what it needs to work, less and dynamic libs.
VS2026, "August 2026 feature update" is installed apparently. Even without Resharper, it is not as fast as Rider, and Rider build speeds up MAUI build and deploy by at least 50%
For dotnet, Rider runs rings around VSCode. Even using the Resharper plugin, VSCode is nowhere near the same functionality. I even use Rider above Visual Studio because it works way better for mobile and cross platform.…
And the UK in general. I went to Dublin a few years back now, and I had my passport checked as I entered Ireland, but not before I got on the plane and not as I left not when I got back to Gatwick.. in fact I walked off…
The umlaut does mean that to a Swede it is not the same word sound at all. I can only guess that is why it was allowed?
The first version I used was one of the previews, where the IDE didn't actually work and all the code was compiled from the command line. Kylix 1.0 was "okay", but it quickly became impossible to use because Linux moved…
To be honest, VB.Net was a very thin veneer of VB on top of the .Net runtime. It was not good. All of us that were doing Delphi quickly jumped to C#, because it felt a lot more grown up. The only truly terrible products…
I want native apps because I don't want to rely on the internet existing and I don't think hosting an offline web page in a captured browser is "good enough"
Even when CarPlay is full screen, it is possible to have a the manufacturer's UI available. My Ford Sync 3 will let me get back the the car UI via an icon that is the Ford logo - it loos like a regular app, but it's…
I would recommend the audiobook - John Romero actually reads it so it seems a lot more personal. I did feel that Romero skipped a load of stuff, at least int he audio version. There was no real mention of Stevie Case,…
This makes no actual sense as a complaint. The M-series all have chargers with a USB-C socket on them that the cable is plugged in to, so you would have been able to use the PSU from any M-series MacBook - even if they…
A question I'm sure you might have been asked before - will this support mobile too? It would be nice if it did. I would certainly like to try it. It does feel like being able to use Avalonia and MAUI in mobile would be…
How much is Flex? It is free. You have 2 options - 1) physical card, which works like a credit card. 2) You can flex payments you made on your regular card. The rules are the same. If it was a card purchase it will more…
It depends. The more you use it the better the limit gets. Mine is nearly 3k now.
> Mixing C# with other languages in the same project is also difficult because it only supports MSBuild. No, this is not true. You can invoke the compiler directly with no direct call to MSBuild what so ever. Even using…
I would have said "true", or at least - I would have said "I do, but never incurring a charge on next month's bill", but with services like Flex from Monzo, you can actually get credit over 3 months with 0% interest…
Legacy of BeOS.
"Queen" came from "The king and his queen". There is no common word for Queen in Germanic languages, and for what ever reason Queen became synonymous with royalty. Originally it just mean "the king and his woman", but I…
I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.
Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for most of its life.
WinForms came way after VB4 and it was a .Net only technology.
MVC is a design pattern, ASP.NET MVC is a framework that used MVC as its go to pattern. But MVC is not in any way only ASP.NET MVC. There are plenty of other UI frameworks that use MVC and the Wikipedia article lists a…
> The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are [...] and flutter I wouldn't really call Flutter "native". I don't have a strong enough grasp of where React Native is at now. It was severely lacking…
Well - I used Archimedes computers with ARM2 and owned an Amiga 500+ and honestly, I couldn't tell you the Arcie was faster. It certainly didn't have the custom chips, so it is probably not a fair comparison.
Advent of computing podcast did a series on his computers, of which this is a link to one of the episodes: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=170d60ae-c534-46f6-968b-...
> Not everything, no. You can't run C# without the .NET runtime You can compile C# to an AOT exe, and when you do that it will literally only be what it needs to work, less and dynamic libs.
VS2026, "August 2026 feature update" is installed apparently. Even without Resharper, it is not as fast as Rider, and Rider build speeds up MAUI build and deploy by at least 50%
For dotnet, Rider runs rings around VSCode. Even using the Resharper plugin, VSCode is nowhere near the same functionality. I even use Rider above Visual Studio because it works way better for mobile and cross platform.…
And the UK in general. I went to Dublin a few years back now, and I had my passport checked as I entered Ireland, but not before I got on the plane and not as I left not when I got back to Gatwick.. in fact I walked off…
The umlaut does mean that to a Swede it is not the same word sound at all. I can only guess that is why it was allowed?
The first version I used was one of the previews, where the IDE didn't actually work and all the code was compiled from the command line. Kylix 1.0 was "okay", but it quickly became impossible to use because Linux moved…
To be honest, VB.Net was a very thin veneer of VB on top of the .Net runtime. It was not good. All of us that were doing Delphi quickly jumped to C#, because it felt a lot more grown up. The only truly terrible products…
I want native apps because I don't want to rely on the internet existing and I don't think hosting an offline web page in a captured browser is "good enough"
Even when CarPlay is full screen, it is possible to have a the manufacturer's UI available. My Ford Sync 3 will let me get back the the car UI via an icon that is the Ford logo - it loos like a regular app, but it's…
I would recommend the audiobook - John Romero actually reads it so it seems a lot more personal. I did feel that Romero skipped a load of stuff, at least int he audio version. There was no real mention of Stevie Case,…
This makes no actual sense as a complaint. The M-series all have chargers with a USB-C socket on them that the cable is plugged in to, so you would have been able to use the PSU from any M-series MacBook - even if they…
A question I'm sure you might have been asked before - will this support mobile too? It would be nice if it did. I would certainly like to try it. It does feel like being able to use Avalonia and MAUI in mobile would be…
How much is Flex? It is free. You have 2 options - 1) physical card, which works like a credit card. 2) You can flex payments you made on your regular card. The rules are the same. If it was a card purchase it will more…
It depends. The more you use it the better the limit gets. Mine is nearly 3k now.
> Mixing C# with other languages in the same project is also difficult because it only supports MSBuild. No, this is not true. You can invoke the compiler directly with no direct call to MSBuild what so ever. Even using…
I would have said "true", or at least - I would have said "I do, but never incurring a charge on next month's bill", but with services like Flex from Monzo, you can actually get credit over 3 months with 0% interest…
Legacy of BeOS.
"Queen" came from "The king and his queen". There is no common word for Queen in Germanic languages, and for what ever reason Queen became synonymous with royalty. Originally it just mean "the king and his woman", but I…
I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.
Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for most of its life.
WinForms came way after VB4 and it was a .Net only technology.
MVC is a design pattern, ASP.NET MVC is a framework that used MVC as its go to pattern. But MVC is not in any way only ASP.NET MVC. There are plenty of other UI frameworks that use MVC and the Wikipedia article lists a…
> The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are [...] and flutter I wouldn't really call Flutter "native". I don't have a strong enough grasp of where React Native is at now. It was severely lacking…
Well - I used Archimedes computers with ARM2 and owned an Amiga 500+ and honestly, I couldn't tell you the Arcie was faster. It certainly didn't have the custom chips, so it is probably not a fair comparison.
Advent of computing podcast did a series on his computers, of which this is a link to one of the episodes: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=170d60ae-c534-46f6-968b-...