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https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/265474/microsoft...

There are the things that are not in this update. Important ones.

It's official. Microsoft has nothing but chucklefucks working on their flagship operating system -- all the talented guys are now working for the cloud division because that's where Microsoft makes its money. Remember these are the same people who said it takes a Ph.D. to write a terminal emulator that doesn't run like ass, only to be shown otherwise by -- I believe it was Casey Muratori.

And he coded the solution in a weekend, no less. And terminals are not even his specialty! He just couldn't understand why the Microsoft team was taking such a top-heavy, convoluted approach.

Replying to my own comment to add the proof that instead of double-digit fps terminal text rendering, he was able to achieve 4-digit fps terminal text rendering after a weekend of coding:

Part 1 (Proof of concept): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg

Part 2 (more features added): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dKzubvpKE

Azure is absolutely ridiculous though? You think the people working there are talented?

TBH I think Microsoft's most talented people are working on the .NET team. Just gets better and better with every release.

.NET is still a thing? Who is using ASP?

me!

Meh, still no 64 bit support, which they had a chance to add for Span type, but completely missed. CIL itself has not been upgraded since 2.0, and they could have tried to add lifetime annotations in Rust style there. Java now has GraalVM mostly implemented in Java, and .NET is still written in C++. They are digging in random directions without seeing the bigger picture.

You're not wrong. Look at the like/dislike ratio on their AMA video about this topic. 29 likes, 733 dislikes JUST in the 'return youtube dislike' browser extension. What the heck guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbsUdFuWKuU

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