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The day gates dies I'll be glad that he's gone, not that he dead.
@hj @mangeurdenuage
Why do people still have a problem with MS? It used to be different, but nowadays in most cases you can just not use their shit — that's it, problem solved!
Unlike with Google — I don't want to deal with neither of WebPee, Brotli, QUIC, protobuf, GRPC and whatnot — yet a lot of software that seemingly has nothing to do with Google and in some cases with Web in general, attempts to shove all this down my throat 😩
@hj
> TypeScript
Ha-ha-ha-ha! I had no idea we can thank MS for this one. I've never used it, but it doesn't even seem… microsoftish to me 🤪
And yeah, valid point — in the work environment you still have to deal with MS a lot, but that's work — it'd never be all about pleasure.
With personal computing you can avoid dealing with MS entirely these days, again unlike Google — their stuff is like cancer, I put a great deal of effort into avoiding it entirely and I still can't 😞
TypeScript is typical (sic) microsoft experience - you write garbage code, you get confusing error messages and whole thing isn't even meant to be good in the first place all while people who have comically large skill issue say that it's better than JS and that it's a must-have.
Oh and let's not forget that Bing is still the backbone of "free" search engines like DDG.
Worst part is that people think that microsoft somehow "changed" and "is actually good now", but reality is that it's still the same, it's an invasive business bureaucracy machine that spreads its tendrils to grasp on whatever it can get a hold on, it WILL EEE your software and workflow, it might be gentle now and it seems like a friendly hug but it WILL start choking and manipulating you. It might not be in your field now but it is in its considerations. They just wait until generations pass and everyone forgets their crimes so that they can strike again when no one is expecting.