bitgeist

You're right on the money with this one. I'm one of the people in that group.

Have any recommendations?

This is a really interesting idea. I had never considered this before.

This would allow you to write PostgreSQL queries that work against a flat file or a Postgres server. Am I understanding the potential benefit correctly?

Microsoft has come a long way since Satya Nadella took over in early 2014. The open-sourcing of .NET Core that same year was a huge step forward. Seeing a 'Microsoft Loves Linux' slide that year was something I did not have on my bingo card. VS Code and the GitHub acquisition demonstrated Microsoft's interest in fostering good relations with developers instead of alienating them. I do wish GitHub had stayed independent, though.

Microsoft is a business and will always put their business objectives first. In my opinion, they have a non-zero amount of evilness. I do not support them jamming Copilot into every available crevice. I still think they make dumb choices, like every imperfect organization. However, C# is a powerful and intuitive language, and for Microsoft shops that already run a lot of Windows and SQL Server it makes a lot of sense.

No shade to the JVM. I've mostly enjoyed my time in that space. I do believe the choice between Java and Kotlin, the wide variety of vendor JDK distributions and IDE fragmentation make the JVM stack a bit more difficult for newcomers to break into.

I will always upvote a comment supporting f.lux given the chance to. Fantastic piece of software.

My taste agrees with the point made but thinks this could've been a shorter article

I like your username.