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What I'd like to see is WPF and the Windows Runtime XAML stack brought closer together. For example, if the Windows Runtime XAML framework could be used to write desktop applications and not just Windows Store apps, it would become far more attractive to me and I'd be less worried about the future of WPF. There's really no need to have two pretty similiar UI frameworks exisiting side-by-side, merging them in the mid-term only makes sense. Right now, I'm not convinced by the Store application model as it is too restricted in terms of deployment and extensibility. For example, it would be great if I could build an app package targeting the desktop, allow things like dynamic code generation via contracts, and then deploy it via OneGet.
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Loving it! 
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Cool! 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Really like:
- DirectX interoperability
- Tooling Improvements
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Updates to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Azure and the .NET Framework were announced at a New York City event today that was live-streamed to an estimated 250,000 developers around the world.
Public previews of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 are being made available today—along with new cross-platform tools in Visual Studio 2015—while .NET is going open source and cross-platform. The company also announced a free Community edition of Visual Studio. Holy Microsoft news
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Fantastic news! I (along with many others) was expecting a MS-Xamarin tie up. Great to hear that VS2015 will support cross platform client development out of the box.
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/ravi
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Its only comfort calling late...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It seems that after all the years Microsoft start to invest in developers...Good news...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Language features can take extremely different forms in different languages. However, this does prove conclusively that my language is the best
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I think they got that backward.
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I think he's trying to say, "a language is more than the sum of its parts". Or something. Seemed to fade off into rant territory near the end.
TTFN - Kent
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Well, the language doesn't matter; only the features do.
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I disagree. A well designed language creates a synthesis of features that makes it a pleasure to use.
A poorly designed-by-committee language ends up looking like C++.
Which has many, many features, but isn't exactly the easiest language to learn.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I like C++. A lot. Even so, it was originally "designed" (ehm, hacked together) by one guy as a front-end to "C". It was a hack then and it's a hack by committee now.
But, I still like it.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Don't get me wrong, I like it and use it exclusively for certain kinds of projects, but more because nothing else is really usable in that space.
It just seems the language "evolves" to a more complex language all the time, never (or very very rarely) prunes old features or fixes features, and even someone like me, with over 20 years experience, can't hope to understand all features fully.
And the use of textual inclusion for module dependencies in the 21st century is really a joke. No wonder compile-times are excessive for large projects.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Remember Heartbleed? You know, the exploit in SSL that was so bad it got its own brand? Microsoft may have an issue of similar scale on its hands with a critical patch issued via Windows Update today. How's that for a 'scare your shorts off' headline? Someone got points for that.
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Microsoft is rebranding its unified-communications line-up from Lync to Skype for Business, and is readying the next releases of those products for the first half of 2015. Because nothing says 'business' like 'Skype me'
And of course they will also completely update the UI every six months to maintain tradition associated with that name.
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I don't think "lynch me" was better 
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So they finally found the missing linc?
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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It’s proven that Clang is a mature compiler For C and C++as GCC and Microsoft compilers, but what makes it special is the fact that it’s not just a compiler. It’s also an infrastructure to build tools. It makes such a catchy chorus, "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
If it's so flexible that it can be used with many languages, then why don't they call it "dolang"? That would be so fine.
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Two ears and a tail for that one. Well done, sir. 
TTFN - Kent
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Actually, it is LLVM that is multi-language, providing the underpinning of CLang. CLang is an implementation of C, C++ and Objective-C implemented using LLVM.
That is made pretty clear in the article, I thought.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Nvidia is releasing the software it created to prove that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was real. Yeah. A company that specializes in CG says it wasn't. That should convince the 'skeptics'.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah. A company that specializes in CG says it wasn't. That should convince the 'skeptics'.
It should convice them.
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