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impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
Looking into it! :D

Ha, found: https://github.com/tanathos/ClippyVS

impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
However, the guys on the Discord Visual Basic server have managed to spin it up on WSL.

https://discord.gg/Y8EH5fF6WG

impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
I actually had Claude do a lot of research into libraries. We tried a LOT of them before finding Gtk# 3 stable enough on the version used. What also was a factor was finding a version of dotnet on Linux that was stable for this combination. And it wasn't so much what would compile together, it was more what packages were available for MX Linux (my preferred flavor).

Gtk 3 has a weird way of doing scrolled controls that I couldn't accept because the nesting caused all kinds if issues. Also, the Gtk text control is incredibly slow when the file in it grows past 600 lines.

I wrote the editor control with an architectural design I created originally back in 2004, and subsequently lost. Much, much faster implementation. Took about 3 weeks with Claude.

Also wrote a treeview, listbox, colorpicker. Those took a day or two each with Claude. I will be releasing those controls in a dotnet library when I am finished with SimpleIDE.

impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
Its still quite rough around the edges. I would not recommend it for production at this time.
impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
No, I'm sorry, SimpleIDE was designed specifically for targeting Linux.
impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
Haha, I laughed when you said this. I've only been writing it for a little over two months now. But thank you!
impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
VB.NET's verbose syntax actually makes it PERFECT for AI assistance. And it is being developed with full AI integration.

And, Linux lacks any such tools. Not even VS Code has a plugin for VB.

impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
And what makes this project significant is there's a lack of VB.NET tools on Linux.

It has been challenging trying to get Gtk 3 widgets to play nice. Finally just rolled my own custom-drawn editor, treeview, and listbox. Going to release them later in a library.

impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
Well, that would certainly be a stretch goal. Right now its all code.
impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
Definitely a great deal of nostalgia for me. Years ago, I had written this project up from scratch and later lost all my source code in an accident.

I learned about vibe coding two months ago and, wow, writing this with Claude has been lots of fun. Almost to the point in the project of having full AI integration in the IDE.

impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
Updated. Thx.
impendingchange··on SimpleIDE
A lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. SimpleIDE provides a modern development environment specifically designed for VB.NET projects on Linux systems.
impendingchange··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
Almost as bad as a private email server being used for governmental business.
impendingchange··on [dead]
I don't think his voters watch CNN, so there's no trouble from this for Trump.
impendingchange··on What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler
And burning crosses on front lawns brings people together like nothing else.
impendingchange··on What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler
How did MAGA become so rabid during the last administration???
impendingchange··on Measles arrives in Kansas, spreads quickly in undervaccinated counties
https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/unreported-health-benefits-mea...
impendingchange··on Why Trump's economic policies may have canceled the DOGE dividend check
So they might not return money that taxpayers volunteered...
impendingchange··on 'Boggles the mind': US defence department slashes research on emerging threats
Most people misunderstand what's really going on at the federal level. The federal government is a conglomerate of corporations (all listed on Dunn & Bradstreet), and the parent corporation has been forced into chapter 11 bankruptcy, and is also absorbing the debts of the District of Columbia municipal corporation's chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Musk is merely auditing and liquidating all the subsidiary corporations at the order of the bankruptcy court. That is why no federal judge is able to shut him down. Musk is walking into agencies with a court order and cannot be stopped.

Gotta remember - Trump was the king of bankruptcies. He had several very large corporations of his own go under.

When Musk and Trump are done, the federal government will be very lean indeed.

impendingchange··on Elephants give each other names – first non-human animals to do so, study claims
Anyone know what the first human animals to give each other names? Just asking.
impendingchange··on Wine 7.0-Rc6 Released
It must come as the cost of implementing censorship.
impendingchange··on Hospital Beds Are a Monopoly
This is true. And when hospitals refuse non-vaccinated patients, there should be an antitrust investigation.
impendingchange··on More Serious Than I Thought: Bank of America 800M Ounces Short on Silver
That's why they hodl.
impendingchange··on More Serious Than I Thought: Bank of America 800M Ounces Short on Silver
Irregardless, 800m ounces is the annual output of all mines on the planet. How will BOA satisfy the shorts?
impendingchange··on More Serious Than I Thought: Bank of America 800M Ounces Short on Silver
Probably the most interesting paragraph of the article to me was:

>The seriousness of this issue is rooted in the scale of the numbers. If Bank of America is short 800 million oz of silver, as the data in the OCC report strongly suggests, then that means every dollar higher in the price of silver translated into an $800 million open (unrealized) loss. Every $10 move equates to an $8 billion loss. A hundred dollar move higher from here equates to an $80 billion loss. Can BofA fund such losses or will taxpayers be called upon to bail the bank out? Even the slightest hint of such a development should be enough to require immediate clarification from the regulators and BofA and there’s a lot more than the slightest hint in the OCC report.

impendingchange··on The Amiga as “a computer built to last 50 years”
I had an Amiga 3000, and the significant thing for me with it was that I could run my multiline BBS at the same time as I could play games or do other things. Before Windows 3.0. During the MS-DOS era.
impendingchange··on Oral Covid-19 antiviral, Paxlovid, approved by UK regulator
Be careful with those. The FDA reports all kinds of adverse reactions with other drugs[1]. Like a list 7 pages long of drugs with adverse reactions.

1. https://www.fda.gov/media/155050/download

impendingchange··on El Salvador President says, ‘It’s game over for dollar, Bitcoin is future’
Seems the same thing is happening in Turkey:

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/24/turkey-president-...

impendingchange··on Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex [pdf]
In an utopia where individual rights are not a matter of importance, lockdowns make perfect sense. Case in point is nearly every prison that locked their populace down to control the spread of the virus.
impendingchange··on China Created an AI ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Charge People with Crimes
Reminds me of the RPG called Paranoia.
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