I had the exact same question, did the exact same thing, and had the exact same response. EVERYONE does this, it’s infuriating. If you’re going to have a public-facing info page about your project or product, you need to assume that people know NOTHING about it.
I think it’s a fallacy to say that you can or should build an application layer that’s completely DBMS agnostic. Even if you are very careful to only write SQL queries with features that are part of the official SQL standard, you’re still coupled to your particular DBMS’s internal implementations for query compilation, planning, optimization, etc. At enterprise scale, there’s still going to be plenty of queries that suddenly perform like crap, after a DBMS swap.
In my mind, standardization for things like ODBC or Hibernate or Entity Framework or whatever else isn’t meant to abstract away the underlying DBMS, it’s meant to promote compatibility.
Not to mention that you’re tying your own hands by locking yourself out of non-standard DBMS features, that you could be REALLY useful to you, if you have the right use-cases. JSON generation and indexing is the big one that comes to mind. Also, geospatial data tables.
For context, my professional work for the past 6 years is an Oracle/.NET/Browser application, and we are HEAVILY invested in Oracle. Most notably, we do a LOT of ETL, and that all runs exclusively in the DBMS itself, in PL/SQL procedures orchestratedbbybthe Oracle job scheduler. Attempting to do this kind of data manipulation by round-tripping it into .NET code would make things significantly worse.
So, my opinion could definitely be a result of what’s been normalized for me, in my day job. But I’ve also had a few other collaborative side projects where I think the “don’t try and abstract away the DBMS” advice holds true.
I know folks in the C# Discord have talked about getting WinForms to work on Linux, you could post a question there. But unless you’re specifically dealing with maintaining some legacy app, you should not be using WinForms, much less on Linux. Avalonia or Xamarin are definitely the way to go if you’re making something new and want cross-platform desktop support.
Protip if you do go down that route: Tutorials tend to ignore the fact that you don’t have to use XAML to make anything in these frameworks. You should. But if it’s more comfortable for you to write WinForms-style imperative code that you’re used to, you 100% can, the APIs are not significantly different.
Apparently trained on 4chan?
It’s possible to do a diff across all the commits in the PR (rather, a diff between the last commit before, and the final commit of), so no, I do not squash them all for review. Otherwise, yes, I will definitely clone and review the code locally for large PRs.
DOM APIs in WASM.
Right, the compiler isn’t smart enough to recognize that isalpha() is pure and deterministic.
This particular compiler isn’t smart enough to recognize that isalpha(letter) == true and isalpha(letter) == false are mutually exclusive conditions. It thinks there’s a third scenario that you haven’t accounted for.
I’m not familiar, no.
The difficulty is exclusively in the puzzles, and it’s got a wiiiiiiide range. Minimal completion is maybe like a 5/10 difficulty, pretty manageable, full completion gets up to at least 8/10. Very rewarding, though, if you’re into brain-heavy puzzles.
Likely more Stardew, and with any luck, Talos Principle 2. I’ve been holding off on it, until my son finishes the first one.
I don’t think the intention is that Copilot voice would be animated, I think they just had a dumb idea to highlight it that way in the demo. Look closely, and you’ll see the Copilot voice is the only text there written in the “Krypton” font. The animation indeed looks godawful.
A) Practice.
B) Interacting with programmers other than yourself.
On a more specific note:
Don’t work “around” problems. Identify what the problem actually IS and work backwards. When you try to take a step and find that you don’t know what step to take, or you’re stepping into something you don’t understand, go research and learn about it.
Learning how to read technical documentation is a valuable skill.
Recognize and challenge your assumptions. Which plays into working “around” problems. Do I know the error I’m researching came from this bit of code? Is this bit of code even running? Is the source file I’m looking at even part of the binary I’m running? Is the binary that’s running actually the one I’m trying to test?
The loop will run to completion with no side effects. Unless it gets optimized away by the compiler or CPU.
Nope, sorry. https://discord.gg/csharp if you wanna find folks that do.
VS for me. I’ve heard notbing but praise for Rider.
I know there’s also a lot of popularity for VSCode, if you know what you’re doing and what all extensions you need to setup, but that makes for a much bigger barrier to entry.
C#. Comes with a first-class dev and debugging experience, a HUGE first-party BCL, cross-platform application support, and one of the best webserver frameworks out there.
TypeScript makes a reasonably-close second, not necessarily because it’s great, but because of how effective it is at making JavaScript usable.
Okay, so you’re building an API that another server needs to auth with? If the opposing side is a server, a pre-shared PKI cert ought to work. If the opposing side is a potentially-untrustworth client application, the truth is there’s nothing that’s going to fit such a simple definition of “extra”. The back and forth it takes to establish token exchange is not “extra” is the cost you have to pay to get security.
making a call to generate a token is slow
If it was happening every page load or every API call, you might have a weak argument.
Regardless, what’s the general architecture of this app? You’ve got an HTTP API, what else? How much is under your control, versus third parties?
Seconded. In particular:
I have there’s a requirement to use an authentication method other than … any kind of token generation which requires making an extra HTTP call.
Why? What qualifies as an “extra” HTTP call, and why does it matter?
Was intrigued until step one of “Getting Started”:
That’s gonna be a “no” from me.