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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by vixalien on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:11AM (#29529747)
to elabolate:

1. Open VS, wait a minute. 2. New Project 3. Run, wait 10 minutes for dependencies to download. 4. Want to use Sublime Text or VS Code, haha lol.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by tester756 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:44AM (#29530017)
>3. Run, wait 10 minutes for dependencies to download.

Why would you need 10 minutes?

>dotnet new winforms

>dotnet run

>app appears

takes a few secs

even on old .NET there was no such a thing like 10 min wait for dependencies to load

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by washadjeffmad on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:05AM (#29530698)
You didn't ask about their internet quality, computer specs, etc.

If you're used to developing on Linux where you can self-host entire repos, it's incredible how fragile and ephemeral the MS stack must feel.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by tester756 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:10PM (#29531333)
What do you mean?

>If you're used to developing on Linux where you can self-host entire repos, it's incredible how fragile and ephemeral the MS stack must feel.

I guess he's talking about restoring nuget packages, so of course you don't want to have all existing nugets in all versions on your disk.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by throwaway19937 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:56AM (#29531182)
> 1. Open VS, wait a minute. 2. New Project 3. Run, wait 10 minutes for dependencies to download. 4. Want to use Sublime Text or VS Code, haha lol.

You're playing on hard mode; try using Visual Studio for everything.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by theduder99 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:46AM (#29530037)
#3 is a one-time cost, #4 is you are doing it wrong
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