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Microsoft promoting rust, never thought I’d live to see the day.

Not clear why one would choose this over the official rust documentation and tutorials.

Oh and also - it’s a trap. Microsoft are not friends of free software.

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How is it a trap?

Please don't make vague accusations. If you have something substantive to add - describe it.

Oh vague? You mean like calling open-source software a "cancer" and "an intellectual-property destroyer” ? https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-red-hat-argue-open-sourc...

I think what they meant by "vague" is that you did not tell us why you think it was a trap. :)

Can you show some evidence that's less than two decades old though? ;)

Open source has "won" in the meantime. Why would Microsoft be interested in turning back the clock now that the money is in services, no longer in software.

Open source has gone horribly right, but Free Software isn't anywhere close. The year of the linux desktop is literally a punchline, and Replicant shows that it's not possible to have a fully libre smartphone.

> Can you show some evidence that's less than two decades old though? ;)

I don't agree with the GP comment, but, i doubt they'd make this mistake again even if they believe it.

I guess the general attitude of FAANG and microsoft towards open source is that if they could make money with it, it's good. Once, companies saw you could make money with opensource, other concerns evaporated. This reminds me of all those ads that IBM spent promoting linux, but, ultimately didn't end up as winner with opensource.

Microsoft are going big on rust and wasm. They have had their fingers burned to much in the past from being late adopters (linux, containers etc) and don't want to be at the back again.

On the WASM side, Blazor and Flight Simulator plugins.

> Oh and also - it’s a trap. Microsoft are not friends of free software.

How does a freely available tutorial on a programming language have anything to do with someone's position on free software?

Check out how well their windows-rs project supports cross compilation. It also requires proprietary components to be present. Meanwhile winapi, the project windows-rs is a competitor for requires neither.

Would I call it a trap? No, but MS hasn't shown well enough that they are friends to free software.

I still don’t see the link between what you say and this rust tutorial.

From the linked docs

> For example, if your distribution uses the GNOME desktop, locate the Show Applications icon (a grid of dots) docked on the left side of the screen, usually near the bottom. This icon opens a full-screen list of all applications installed on your system.

Why would they be teaching Linux beginners how to use GNOME if that was their opinion?

You do know that they open sourced ton of stuff, right? Including .net core for example (under MIT license).

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