If they follow through it should help. I've used WinUI extensively and its pretty obvious these guys are not eating their own dog food. If they are forced to actually use WinUI it should help flesh out the toolkit. There's no excuse for the gui library to be the state its in after so long. The urgency to make it great is just not there. Hopefully that will change.

Yeah I just wanted to say I agree with this. What a shame that a whole generation will ignore the joy of reading a good book and instead scroll through their social media feed where their attention is short and the subject changes every few seconds oscillating between hatred, laughter, boredom, misinformation, and useful information. Phones should come with ADHD medication.

Yet another worthless observation to try and convince us the planet is in grave danger.

What sort of problems does MS face investing here for that?

STEM jobs, yeah. Most other jobs would probably be better served in an apprenticeship. I expect apprenticeship positions to be more competitive in the near future. I still see art school as an important step for that crowd too. What else?

You can be pretty certain you will not die of climate change.

More storage in less space?

we had a better track record of predicting catastrophic consequences of climate change. Its important to be prepared that's for sure. Can anyone be certain of this time frame though? Probably not based on past experience. Based on some predictions from 20 or more years ago many of our coastal cities should be underwater by now.

I'm curious where we stand with regard to any planned or existing lawsuits against big tech for rights violations on artistic content. What are the courts saying about all this?

This idea that coding was a task for a real man or woman who were not lazy and capable of avoiding the pitfalls of the particular language they were using is and was never true. When you release a tool to the world that by its very use has the capacity of compromising security it will, of course, result in compromised security. So any effort to develop tools that prevent security flaws as part of the development process are superior for the general development community. Maybe that's not the case for some particular specialist project but for general development that will always be the case.

If only federal salaries were the only thing DOGE had to worry about.

smh

When I was at the University of Delaware we started with C. When my godson started 4 years ago it was scheme. I was never a big fan of scheme/lisp languages personally. I like the idea of using a relatively easy to understand language for fundies so long as its robust enough to cover all the bases. I don't think scheme/lisp is a good choice.

I suppose I'll be left in the dust, but I view AI as maybe an additional tool for finding code snippets to accomplish a specific task. Software architecture is not something I'll use AI for. I'm too much of a control freak for that.

Maybe this is where the failed audit money went :-)