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Microsoft’s Windows operating system is built upon years and years of code that is continuously rolled forward to maintain interoperability between platforms. But, after doing this for many years, there comes a time when you must go back and re-work the code to modernize it and make Windows a more streamlined operating system. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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Is the world ready for OS3 yet?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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like using Linux kernel with custom UI based on HTML ans JS?
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..no more vbrun300.dll?
One can dream 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's the kernel.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Because that's Written by Clueless HR Drone Vague; I'm going to pretend what they're really planning to do is to replace all the old win32 controls with versions that share the same public API but are DPI aware under the hood so that high DPI no longer sucks with most non Metro/WPF apps.
A man can dream can't he. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Project Panama would provide a native interconnect between code managed by the JVM and APIs for non-Java libraries. "Here she comes, full blast and top down. Hot shoe, burnin' down the avenue"
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Might as well jump on that.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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My childhood has ruined me. My brain is incapable of thinking about anything else but THIS [^] when anything Panama Canal-related comes up.
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Big companies like Apple, Facebook and Google are developing their own programming languages, forcing developers to adapt. Just one (and zero)
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At least a few. The mental bottleneck of only knowing one language makes for some really crappy programmers.
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42, I'm sure this is the answer.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Kent Sharkey wrote: forcing developers to adapt
Not at all. Other than maybe their own developers, no one is forced. I have no interest in developing for iOS, and I briefly looked at developing for Android before giving up.
A developer only needs to know one general purpose language, that one may depend on which environment is being targetted. And domain-specific languages (e.g. SQL, Javascript) may also be required by the environment.
However, having some experience with several general purpose languages can make for a more well-rounded developer.
To some extent, these "niche" languages that appear to target one particular OS or VM are limiting their own success. I haven't looked at Xamarin yet, but I would very much like to have the ability to use C# on Android and iOS. And OpenVMS.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I guess that's one way to limit them stealing talent from each other. You only know the facebook language? No reason for google to hire you.
"I only speak two languages: English and bad English."
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The world is hitting its stride in technological advances and futurists have been making wild-sounding bets on what we'll accomplish in the not-so-distant future. "First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you wear machines, and then
I, for one, welcome our Bio-Mechanical Overlords.
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That's the other site 
TTFN - Kent
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CodeLite is an open source, free, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages which runs best on all major Platforms ( OSX, Windows and Linux ) When vi just won't do (hey, it can happen!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When vi just won't do...
... use vim.
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CodeBlocks is a good choice too.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Swift is a hybrid object/functional language that's clearly influenced by "modern" thinking about type systems. It has type inference, generics, value types, enumerations, tuples, first-class functions, a built-in monadic Optional type, and algebraic data types. But one thing that impressed me about Apple's introduction of Swift is that they never once mentioned "type systems" or "functional programming."
Swift has its share of issues, for sure, but it's hard to deny it's promising.
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Christopher Shields wrote:But one thing that impressed me about Apple's introduction of Swift is that they never once mentioned "type systems" or "functional programming."
Of course not. Like Microsoft, all their ideas are original and years ahead of the rest of us. 
Marc
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Very few ideas are wholly original. Often it's a combination of old ideas revamped to be conveniently usable that makes them original or that makes them "new" in the context of some existing platform/infrastructure.
But, it doesn't matter whether it's really new. What matters is whether it's good or not in relation to the applications for which it's intended.
Kevin
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"What matters is whether it's good or not in relation to the applications for which it's intended."
Sadly, that just isn't true. History is littered with superior products that weren't adopted at any large scale.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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How so? I've not said anything about adoption or not. I'm just describing what "good" means at a high level.
Kevin
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