Uno Platform is my go-to cross platform GUI toolkit for C#/.NET. If you want to kick the tires on some of the controls here's web site that uses the Web compile target to let you play online: https://playground.platform.un...

This is a management problem. They should really be engaging strongly with the Swift programming community to get new ideas and solicit opinions and alternatives on proposed directions. This behind closed doors approach is too outdated and leads to these interpersonal conflicts torpedoing good working relationships. They should look at how Microsoft have been engaging with the C# developer community https://github.com/dotnet/csha... , they've been managing this so well it's hard to believe it's run by Microsoft.

Madness and intelligence are actually exclusive

I take it you don't have much experience working in the mental health sector. Some of those crazies are very highly intelligent. A general rule is that is takes a certain amount of intelligence to have a serious mental illness.

If Google wanted to compete with Microsoft then they shouldn't be pushing customers away. I'm in the process of moving to Office 365 because the e-mail hosting is cheaper than what Google are going to charge me for having my own e-mail domain that I've had hosted on gmail for free since about 2008. I hate being forced to dramatically change long term setups. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. So bye Google.

I'm going Microsoft O365, it's cheaper and you don't lose your entire business workflow because someone complains about one of your youtube videos. I've been thinking about reducing my dependencies on Google, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to start taking action.

Or better still a timed self destruct device that is triggered by the pilot ejecting. Aircraft IFF devices already have stuff like this.

Yeah I'm sure that place that has summer daytime temperatures over 123F/50C

Too right we don't need cooling. A real man doesn't need cooling, just hand him a couple of stubbies of VB and he gets on with the job.

What would you suggest to replace it with? A language designed by the company with the worst remote exploits in history?

Ah yes, a poke at Microsoft, a deflection tactic I've seen from many Java programmers since this Log4j exploit showed its head. Yes Microsoft a company so homogenous, who's workers are all so in lockstep, that the coding style present in the operating system called Windows from the 1990s and early 2000s, is reflected in the Office products and developer tools in the year 2022. What an amazing bunch of people they must be, all helping each other out, the programmers of old passing down all of their knowledge to the programmers of new. One big happy family across all of their divisions. If only other companies where like this.

Personally I prefer C++ and CUDA code that runs on hardware that I spec up myself for dedicated tasks, but I'm lucky that those jobs come my way often (btw putting down Java is a common hobby for C++ people, that should have been a clue). I have a hard on for high performance close to the metal code. Yes C# programming is necessary for higher level stuff. Javascript is an evil I endure sometimes, mostly I can steer people away from that. But you can choose whatever pays your bills.

Ah yes name calling, the sign of a true Java developer. I left a response to what is obviously another Java developer here https://slashdot.org/comments.... . I picked their comment to respond to because they seemed to have a wider vocabulary that you.

Yes I understood the gist of your previous answer, and it's a huge headache working in these environments where every new line of code is considered a liability. For some reason the old working code is fully trusted though not to crash the plane (it did), drill a hole through a patient with a laser (did this too), or launch a missile into... somewhere it shouldn't have. (errr)

d) the vulnerability is not Java, but a very specific set of libraries. In this case: log4j.

The vulnerability is related to jndi, which is a bit of a java thing you know. There will be more of these. Here's one to get you started. https://jfrog.com/blog/the-jnd...

And yeah, people run programs that are dependent on Java. The solution that seems to have gone over your head is you replace them with functionally equivalent programs that aren't dependent on Java. Funny enough I'm doing semi automated conversion this week to C# for a customer.

erase drive with DoD 5220.22-M, unplug computer, then burry it 20ft of cement in undisclosed location

You sound like one of clients who stated that if the work we do is stolen then it is worse than if we hadn't done the work at all. I was opting for a more subtle approach. Many of my clients have quite happily removed Java from all their systems and are reaping the benefits, particularly in the finance sector.

There's an easy fix for this log4j issue, just remove Java from all the computers. Then you have nothing to worry about, including all the jdni exploits that haven't been published yet, but are being kept hidden for 90 days until some of them are fixed.

Android has this. Dark blue = RCS message, light blue = sms message.
I know when I'm messaging an iPhone user because it's light blue

That's awesome, so now you can know when the other person is looking down on you for being an Android user.

There's another reason, Burnout. Sometimes programmers are so burnt out, if they come across a problem that requires thinking, they don't have enough energy left to nut it out. Queue just going to stackoverflow looking for the solution, and if it isn't there just type in the easiest shortcut that comes to mind.