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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by Jorge1o1 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:09AM (#29530189)
Your gut feeling is very correct.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972431

There was a whole fiasco where the dotnet/C# team were forced to remove features from dotnet in order to sell more copies of Visual Studio. Later, Microsoft lied through their teeth and said it was some kind of sprint-planning scoping error, even though the development work was already done.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by MikusR on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:41PM (#29533932)
Worst part is that the person that made the decision to remove that feature was promoted. And now indirectly controls GitHub.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by PraetorianGourd on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:44PM (#29536376)
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Full disclosure: I know what I am talking about

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