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Re:Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem by R0b0t1 on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:18PM (#29231401)
They're a sign of dated tech. Nothing modern necessarily needs them. I know how to use them and I can respect the design, but pay gating them for so long has made them irrelevant.
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Re:Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem by pjmlp on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @04:41AM (#29238675)
Not only those things aren't gated, they are the modern APIs on Windows since Longhorn, they are only irrelevant if you are stuck on Windows XP.
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Re:Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem by R0b0t1 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:53PM (#29244819)
The developer tooling was pay gated until VS2019 or something. You needed this tooling to make use of the APIs in a reasonable way, or alternative tooling.

Most people just responded by not using those APIs or recreating them.

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