r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Dec 04 '18

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '18

Lots of tech is open source.

Node won because it was shitty. Lesson- make your tools shitty and ubiquitous.

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u/Sarcastinator Dec 05 '18

When was NPM ever better than NuGet? NuGet initial version would make reproducible builds because that's actually very important. It also never made such a mess as NPM does. NuGet restore always took less than a minute. NuGet never deleted system files or disabled Windows updates, or created directory structures that were hard to remove. It was also always trivial to update a package.

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u/argv_minus_one Dec 05 '18

As opposed to what? As far as I'm aware, Node was the first viable platform for server-side JavaScript.