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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:19AM (#26367942)
The plugins for alternative languages (PHP, Python) are available only for IntelliJ Ultimate / paid. It's not available in free / open source IntelliJ

So either [1] you buy IntelliJ Ultimate & get Java + other languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, etc except .NET and C++)

or [2] you buy the language specific IDE (cheaper) like PhpStorm, PyCharm, etc

Re:Data fetching on the web still sucks on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:42PM (#25937860)
How does Ember.js compare to Angular? Both seems to aim to be a complete solution / batteries included.

(I'm not familiar with Ember.js)

Re:Data fetching on the web still sucks on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:41PM (#25937858)
How does Ember.js compare to Angular? Both seems to aim to be a complete solution.

(I'm not familiar with Ember.js)

Re:Deno 1.4 on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:52AM (#24469055)
Do you think .NET is currently being badly managed compared to Java? And do you think it will negatively affect .NET's long term future?
You also don't like developing web frontends, you only like developing backends & games :p
Re:State of Loom on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:03PM (#23208242)
Python is popular in data science, AI & those field depends on a lot of native libraries: NumPy, SciPy, etc. Maybe that's why they chose the async await model
Re:State of Loom on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:35PM (#23204901)
I don't know about single step when debugging, but it seems intelligible stack trace for async code is available only recently, starting with .NET Core 2.1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15410661/is-it-possible-...

Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:41AM (#23165829)
What do you think about .NET?
No this doesn't record DOM structure changes.

Instead this captures network traffic (bytes) into a .warc file. Then you can replay it later (from the website) or you can download the .warc file to your computer & play it offline using the desktop app (Webrecorder player app) see the bottom of the page or [1]

The downside is that the desktop app is slow (5 seconds to loads a page on my laptop). I've created a fast player app that loads pages instantly, but I haven't open sourced it yet ;)

[1] https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder-player/releases

Re:GitHub Codespaces on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:07AM (#23113825)
I wonder what they use on the backend. Is it .NET Core?
Re:How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:52AM (#22820385)
Do you think Blazor is doomed to fail because of this?
Re:Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:11AM (#22000205)
What do you think about WebAssembly?
Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:45AM (#18634231)
PWA in Windows 10 can access the same APIs as UWP C# & C++ apps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-....

I don't know about Android / ChromeOS.

Re:Android Studio 3.2 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:01PM (#18081657)
I often read complaints that Xamarin is buggy (builds randomly stop working, often need to restart Visual Studio, etc).

How's your personal experience with Xamarin? How's the tooling compared to Android Studio?

I think brango's point is that it can be dangerous to give medical advice if you are not qualified / not a MD, & even then, it should be given only after proper examination
Re:Fedora 26 released on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:43AM (#14751036)
Other than the "Dash to Panel" extension mentioned by another user, you can also use the "Dash to Dock" extension to get pinnable taskbar (can be set to always visible / auto hide).

I no longer use them though (to get more screen space)

Re:Busy to Death on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:52AM (#14687092)
I think the last problem is commonly called "procrastination" and different from workaholism & doing busywork like creating needless meetings, reports, etc.
Can I ask you to work excellently in your job & donate some % of your income to a charity for some amount of time (not just a one time thing) ? ;)

Any charity with good reviews in http://www.givewell.org/ and https://www.charitynavigator.org/ are OK.

Re:Google’s Flutter = React and Java Swing on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:35AM (#14618409)
Dart is quite similar to Java. If you are already familiar with Java I believe it will take you very little time to get started with Dart.

FWIW, I was able to write two small but useful program in Dart in one day, without any experience with the language at all:

- A script to convert CSV file to SELECT ... UNION ALL SELECT ... statements

- A script to parse my timesheet (in Emacs' org-mode) & insert it into my client's timesheet database

I just used these 3 resources:

[1] Dart language tour https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language

[2] Standard library introduction https://www.dartlang.org/guides/libraries

[3] Standard library reference (like JavaDocs) https://api.dartlang.org/stable/1.24.2/index.html

[4] And the pub package manager https://www.dartlang.org/tools/pub

Re:As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating on Monday May 29, 2017 @10:23PM (#14442685)
> Who cares whether the code came from our head or from something publicly available on the internet, or from someone willing to help us?

I hope you are not implying it's OK for students to blindly copy / use code they don't understand.

Otherwise you will end up with "professional" software developers who can't even solve FizzBuzz :p

I have not used Qt, which is why I'm asking (but I've used Swing in the past)
AFAIK, Qt also uses the same approach (it does not use native widgets), yet it does not get the same bad reviews like Swing & JavaFX.

On the opposite, I think people generally like it.

I wonder why?

Re:Swift is like Kotlin on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:59PM (#14371039)
Dart is used for AdWords [0] and AdSense [1]. Both of which account for 89% of Google's revenue.

It's also used for Google's internal CRM (Greentea), and Google Fiber.

[0] http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar...

[1] http://news.dartlang.org/2016/10/google-adsense-angular-dart...

Re:Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:03AM (#13490101)
What about open source antivirus software like ClamAV?
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:21AM (#13461162)
For writing text, I prefer to type on a computer because I can easily rearrange / edit things. You can't do that on paper.

I prefer paper for drawing though (diagrams / flowchart / etc). Has anyone tried using drawing tablet like Wacom? How does it feel compared to drawing on paper?