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This is basically the same as having an automated way to provision Azure VM instances that you would access via RDP, already quite common in many IT organisations, especially for temporary team members as contractors.

> internally at Microsoft, pretty much all the developers I know have switched to using "Devbox", which means we use a remote desktop client to access our dev machine.

Everything old is new again, back to the days of using a single shared server for software development in timesharing setup.

Instead of Novell Netware, UNIX, VMS, AS/400,..., it is the cloud.


Some of us, already have all the speed we need with Java and .NET tooling, don't waste our time rewriting stuff, nor need to bother with borrow checker, even if it isn't a big deal to write affine types compliant code.

And we can always reach out to Scala or F# if feeling creating to play with type systems.


Yeah, it is as if there were never other compiled languages before to rewrite JavaScripting tooling.

The word 'excited' in GP's post isn't decorative.

I am fully aware of it, there have been many 'excited' posts in HN history about various programming languages, with related rewrite X in Y, the remark still stands.

Which is the same reason I don't like Proton, as it in the end doesn't change Windows status quo as the platform for game developers, and hardly any different from using MAME, Vice, Stella, Mesen, Linux-UAE,....

Valve tried really hard to steer the world into native Linux ports, it simply didn't pan out, that ship has already sailed.

Love the experience, and it has been a while that I haven't seen a BIOS system configuration, what a throwback.

You can still have that experience with VB.NET, C#, Delphi, FreePascal, Gambas, Xojo and C++ Builder.

Instead folks go with Electron crap.


TCL/Tk too, albeit being far less intuitive than Lazarus+FreePascal. Altough it has far less code, so it's a draw on difficulty. The average Joe would just spend time measuring the sizes of the frames and that's it.

In a sense yeah, but as far as I remember it never had a good UI designer.

Not really, because it only works for Elisp code, and nothing else that might be called as external process.

Oh I see what you're saying; right, if elisp launches a process it's just a normal process (unless the elisp itself containerizes it when it launches it)

This is already supported for a while and is the way to have those Rust and C++ processes run in the Web IDE version on Github and Azure DevOps.

Here is the thing, I still remember when there was no recording, what happens in the venue stays in the venue, or gets talked with others that shared the experience.

That was in the era of $10 shows.

If I am paying $700 to see Lady Gaga you bet your ass I’m taking some pictures.

I actually find k-pop shows somewhat refreshing because there’s zero negative stigma for wanting to record pictures or video. I can easily tell that Gen Z/Alpha has no problem enjoying themselves and even dancing while recording a video.

If a phone is blocking your view the venue is designed wrong, or you have the rare concertgoer who doesn’t know how to hold their phone in a way that preserves the view for others, which is rare for the younger audiences. (I don’t go to venues with flat floors anymore. Often they weren’t even designed for concerts in the first place).


For what, to say "I was there"?

Why take pictures at all? Why did our grandparents bother to photograph anything at all, ever!

WE ALL KNOW THEY WERE THERE!

That's how you sound.


Except they didn't photograph every little second of their lives, they enjoyed the moment.

I’ve turned myself in to the police because I wasn’t enjoying the moment enough. I regret my crimes. I know better now to have exercised free will too extremely.

I hope bail wasn't too expensive.

Because I enjoy watching the videos later.

I don’t know why the techno-reactionary assumption is that the kids are just doing it for clout online, or that the kids recording aren’t enjoying themselves in the moment. To me, that viewpoint seems like an unsubstantiated assumption, and an embodiment of the “old man yelling at clouds” meme.

I am fully capable of enjoying myself while recording a video/picture.

You’d be amazed at the kind of video and audio quality modern smartphones are capable of taking in a concert setting. The audio quality might even beat the live experience, especially since I need special earplugs to be able to enjoy most concerts without them being too loud and washed out.

The smartphone doesn’t have the same problems that human ears have.

Modern telephoto lenses and video stabilization are incredible. My phone can literally see the stage better than my eyes can.


> My phone can literally see the stage better than my eyes can

Feel sorry for you. Try spending less time in front of the screen.


What I mean is that I’m physically far away in the venue. My vision is far from perfect. My phone has 8x optical zoom.

I feel sorry for you, because it is probably challenging to be so judgmental and supercilious.


> I feel sorry for you, because it is probably challenging to be so judgmental and supercilious.

No, it's in my nature, it comes without effort.


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