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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by amelius on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:12AM (#29529756)
Yes, I hate it when software that I thought was fully installed unexpectedly starts downloading more stuff when I run it.

What if I installed the software with the intention to run it without internet, or 5, 10 or 100 years in the future?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by visarga on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:29AM (#29529882)
Apparently in those 20GB there was no place for the runtime?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by Dayshine on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:38AM (#29529971)
The installer for the sdk is 200MB
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by NicoJuicy on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:18AM (#29530252)
I think it started with Android.

You can download all versions of Android if you want, but i doubt that you would want that.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by amelius on Sunday December 12, 2021 @02:04PM (#29532506)
I think the first time I encountered it was in some makefile of Chrome or perhaps V8 that automagically downloaded dependencies. It sounds nice in theory, but then I expected the tarball to contain the entire thing which caused trouble and confusion down the line.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by pas on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:27AM (#29529864)
the default is online now for development, so nowadays by default if you need offline you need to test it :/
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by marginalia_nu on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:42AM (#29530009)
Who gets to decide what is the default?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by marcosdumay on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:48AM (#29530045)
On this case, Microsoft. It's their private garden, you are invited by their rules.

And yes, this sucks. But if you want freedom, there are other OSes (or even other dev tools) where you can have it.

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