Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by rl3 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:21PM (#13836078)

I found myself in a similar situation back in 2011. The .NET ecosystem went stagnant as resources were shifted towards the upcoming Windows 8 release, and that in turn made everything weird. That weirdness continues today in the form of UWP.

I'm glad I extricated myself from their ecosystem when I did. As much as I loved C# and wanted Microsoft to succeed, it felt very much like being on board a sinking ship.

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by da02 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:47PM (#13836207)

What ecosystem do you work on and use today?

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by rl3 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:33PM (#13836393)

Anything that isn't Microsoft, with the exception of Typescript. Primarily the Node/NPM ecosystem though.

.NET Core is looking nice, but I'd rather not risk being burned twice.

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by narrator on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:12AM (#13836554)

Typescript is supported by Google in Angular2, so it's not a completely Microsoft dominated effort. It's also just a transpiler so it doesn't call into a bunch of closed source Windows APIs which might not work quite right when implemented on non-MS platforms.

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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising by tracker1 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:32PM (#13836390)

Can't speak for GP, but jumped over to Node myself near that time... spent a few years migrating .Net apps, and today mostly work in Node. I've enjoyed it a lot, despite some recent pain (going from Webpack 1 and nyc/mocha/chai to Webpack 2 and Jest) it's still been nicer than when I have to fire up VS (in a VM even) to help with a bug at work.

I will say the .net core stuff is looking really nice to work with though.

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