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In Serbia it was rather "when this conniving bunch of corrupt criminals gets oustes".

Apart from deeper technical issues: I don't like how wxWidgets look and that touch is seemingly not considered a first-class citizen like mouse+keyboard (yet).

Not everything is flowers and sunshine (got a couple of open issues myself... in .NET MAUI too), but whether one can build a single, compact, self-contained exe does not define the hostility of a framework or platform, IMO. .NET was conceived as an enterprise-friendly development framework and that's where it shines the most. Quick-and-dirty/mean-and-lean/distribute-and-forget development was never its forte. I would appreciate that feature too, but it's largely a non-issue.

While Win32 tends to deliver the most resource-efficient and responsive apps if the complexity is not high, I have settled on the latest .NET + C# + Windows App SDK / WinUI 3. Making an app look good and fit into the modern Windows look is extremely hard with Win32 C/C++ and writing and maintaining it requires energy that I'd rather spend elsewhere. Besides, modern frameworks are making great strides in speed, efficiency and QoL features. .NET 11 is full of optimizations, for example.

I had a similar experience about ten years ago at a German university and I don't get it either. However, I did not dare ask why at the time, as I did not want to start a discussion with a potentially vengeful professor.

So it's a D-measuring contest now? Also, I found the tone of the writing on that site, including the picture of Gabe Newell, kind of obnoxious.

C# has gained tons of features and improvements of existing ones, VB.NET has unfortunately been fully ignored. Not even put in the back burner, just left to die, apparently. Which is sad, because I find it more legible and beginner-friendly than any C-derived languages.

> ‘Absolute s--t’

> The U.S. would “instantly” win a hypothetical tech war, an official moaned.

> Japan is clearly a wonderful society

I don't think so.

> seeing as how many people want to visit and immigrate.

That's true for Qatar and UAE too. Wonderful societies.

The introduction of the Office ribbon was one of the biggest improvements in software that I have ever experienced.

Off-topic: managing @Risk licenses in a fully on-prem, no-internet environment has been such a pain in the neck.

By amount of money it is most definitely Qatar.

German does it too: ein Keks = a cookie

> it was working just fine a few months ago

Admins can reallocate licenses of different types among accounts or change them completely. That it worked fine a few months ago means nothing. Your account currently doesn't have a desktop entitlement at all, be it macOS or Windows.

Talk to your M365 admins and beware of lies they might tell you to cover up the truth.