Hallelujah!!! Insider news just arrived in my inbox. And I'm already laughing with: Microservices are technical debt (Don’t worry, it’s only micro technical debt) :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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Me too. I am addicted to Insider news and especially to its hilarious comments.

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I am delighted with some recent extensions, with others I'm indifferent and I don't hate any.

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Close to mine too. My first computer programming I did for money was done in FORTRAN 77. I recorded it on cards and it was run on an IBM HOST in a computing center in Madrid. The program purpose was a price adjustment for interurban bus transport lines in Spain.

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Last survey week just showed a "senior weighted" group answered last survey week :) To find out the true age distribution of Code Project users. We would have to carry out a survey on a random sample or carry out a census.

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I programmed some utilities in Rexx for IBM hosts but although I liked it, it was only as part of a project and I didn't have time to go deeper into the language. As an addition to your information about Rexx, I remember that since I didn't have easy access to our client's hosts, I tested my utilities on a curious Commodore Amiga porting of Rexx.

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Male ego? I think it would be better to write "ego" without a qualifier.

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Visual Studio is not the best UI, but it is the one that best integrates code editing with Git version control.

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Me too.

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I'm 30+ years programmer and I see age as the main difference :(

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Not showering not only keeps people away, also prevents water pollution and helps keep rivers clean. It is also important to eat garlic, smoke, drink alcohol and lack of oral hygiene. But those resources are circumstantial, not effective in case of nasal congestion, and most importantly: not prevent online communication. If you really want a hermit top isolation level, simply show your PreSmartPhoneEraStupidNokiaPohne when people want whatsapp communication with you. That's totally effective: people not only discard you for not being able to use whatsapp: you are discarded because nobody wants any kind of relationship with a poor guy not even own a smartphone. PD. It also helps a lot to speak and write very bad English :(

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I'm surprised because you can't believe that 13 years after the iPhone was released we're still in the string and ducttape era of cross platform mobile development, because after many more years cross platform desktop development is still very complicated. And after many, many more years, cross platform host development is still very complicated despite the fact that their most widespread language, COBOL, was born with an environment section to solve cross platform problems. So I'd like to know what platforms you're comparing mobiles to: Abacuses? Sorry, it is just a joke. What I mean is that we have to be aware that cross platform development is a very ambitious challenge. But it is also true that we are now much more concerned about cross platform development: We put more effort into it than in the past and have the experience of trying it for so many years. Going into the subject, there are two main ways to achieve multi-platform applications: 1) Develop a single application that looks and works exactly the same on all platforms. The question is why there are different platforms if we end up building a dull identical application on all of them. 2) Develop an application that shares almost all the code but allows adapted code to take advantage of the special features of each platform. For me this is the right way to cross platform development and it's the one that Xamarin took. Of course, Xamarin is not perfect and it has a tough learning curve if we want to succeed, but it is worth the effort as long as there is nothing better. I'm starting to test the UNO platform and so far it's doing very, very well in the trials, but I cannot recommend it until I develop and test something real (UNO platform uses inside Xamarin infrastructure and ideas to some extent). It should be added that both Xamarin and UNO platform allow cross platform development not only for mobiles, but also for desktops (UNO platform also includes WebAssembly browsers). NOTE. There may be better environments for cross platform development, but C# coding is essential for me.

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Only if you're a socialist who thinks private property is theft.

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The sound of silence. But not Simon&Garfunkel's song. I mean silence helps me focus on programming.

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I believe the comment about C# more and more Phyton-like is more of a joke than a serious statement. And I also believe there are many of us, C# programmers, waiting for the new features mentioned in the .NET blog post, but I would like the final release also incorporate the announced "records" and the "with" clause features.

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It is curious that you think that mixing HTML and Javascript with C# is a mess, when the mixture of HTML and Javascript itself is a complicated mixture of design and code. That's why I've been rejecting the development of WEB applications for a long time and I focus on the development of Apps using frameworks where design and code are separated. I hope that with Webassembly we can overcome the horrible mix of design and code that is the HTML+Javascript framework.

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I've been there myself. At first I thought that indenting with spaces is a great idea that frees us from using curly braces, etcetera, but my first day of Phyton programming, I realized that using spaces to indent is a nightmare... at least for c-style language programmers. Overall, I didn't feel that the advantages offered by Phtyton were worth the effort, and Phyton is not one of my target languages (although sometimes I've been forced to program a language gateway between Phyton and c#). The lesson for all c-style programmers is that they have to add the cost of getting used to indent with spaces to the Phyton learning curve.

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Windows 10 at work and home and happy with Edge: not yet a full browser but I like current features (I switch between Chrome and Edge, but Edge is my default). VS 2015 at work and VS 2017 at home (starting to use 2017 side by side at work).

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I have just received the reference to this article http://sdtimes.com/jobs-as-code-automation-developers-software-sd-times/ in the Code Project Insider email, and indeed it is true that we have better tools to do our work. This article is the typical food used by IT managers to demand more tasks, higher productivity, better code and exact delivery dates beyond what is reasonable. Can we do other work while programming? Maybe the article falls short and perhaps we can not only push the entire workflow of the application life cycle management; as well as complete all the forms necessary to control the project while documenting well and clear; write and execute early and often all the tests that guarantee our code is perfect as well as elegant and friendly enough to fire us in the future and hire a cheaper one; but also we can clean the office, serve the coffees and make stunts when our dear manager throws us a ball just for fun... What is your opinion? Thanks.

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I'm using the EDGE from the first version, and although I also use Chrome and IE, now EDGE is my default one. If they continue to improve it, it may end up being my only one.

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