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MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
The example is not .NET in general, but that specific event when Microsoft reneged on open development tooling[1]. For some people, that was the moment they stopped trusting "new Microsoft" to keep their word (though for me, it was when the Python language server was replaced with a DRM-locked, LSP-noncompliant one[2] a bit before that; unlike .NET hot reload, they didn't backtrack there). I can think the company makes great open .NET tools and at the same time not trust them to close it down on a whim.
Does anyone know where the open xlang reimplementation of MIDL went[3], by the way? (Unlike 1990s MIDL, you can't reimplement this one from the language grammar in the docs, because there is no language grammar in the docs.)
[1] https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source and links there
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/xlang/pull/529
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The unintended consequences of Windows+V
For my fellow python guys: first off, install winrt, and as per this issue, remove the initapartment call in winrt/init_.py. Then something like:
- How is Redox OS (and similar projects) planning to deal with the lack of dynamic linking support?
- Anyone thinking of using microsoft/xlang to improve Python automation on Windows? Made me think of Ansible among other things.
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What are some alternatives?
Theseus - Theseus is a modern OS written from scratch in Rust that explores 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧: closing the semantic gap between compiler and hardware by maximally leveraging the power of language safety and affine types. Theseus aims to shift OS responsibilities like resource management into the compiler.
website-meta-language - An old offline HTML preprocessor (which can be used for static site generation), written in Perl and C that is still maintained for legacy reasons, but probably not recommended for new sites.
win32metadata - Tooling to generate metadata for Win32 APIs in the Windows SDK.
tine - tine - a modern clone of the AmigaDOS/TRIPOS ED display editor
windows-rs - Rust for Windows
keepassxc - KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
awesome-windows-privacy - A list of awesome tools, documentation and scripts for better privacy on Microsoft Windows
Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.
CardFileKPPlugin - A plugin for Keepass. It enables importing a Microsoft Cardfile.