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I liked Edge originally too - it seemed cleaner than chrome and had some cool features like vertical tabs and the Dev tools that were better than Chrome's. I made it my daily driver.

Then they adding a shopping helper; then more ads to the new start-page; then a notification about Microsoft rewards; then popups about how "Bing is better" or that "Bing AI" was there to help - don't forget the "Open links in Edge on Mobile" popup; then they added a side toolbar with a giant B[ing] button that wasn't removable unless you toggled a group policy (now there's an option for it). The damn button was the last straw for me because of the amount of work I needed to do to just disable it.

> I just want to get on my computer - do a few things and get some stuff done

Yeah, so do I and Edge kept getting in the way to keep telling me about all the new things that Microsoft things I should use.

Chrome isn't great - the privacy sandbox/built-in interests stuff is disgusting - but Chrome wasn't as "in your face" so I could just start it and go. Brave avoided the the privacy sandbox and now Firefox works for me everywhere.

I find the best middle ground is setting up the IDE to have TSC watch running while making changes, but using other tools for doing the actual compiling (vite for example). This allows me to refactor quickly - choosing when to ignore type errors - but also be notified of all the other call sites that I need to update, including in all of the files not currently open in the editor.

It may not be the correct way or a smart way, but it is objective - the metric being used cannot be interpreted one way or another, it's just LOC.

For this specific example the problem is that the handleClick callback is using a stale/cached onImageDeleted callback (which indirectly has old state). If you add onImageDeleted to the handleClick dependency array, it beings to work as you expect.

I think the point was that it's not different from Node.js - and thus not much of a benefit.

If it was more along the lines of "I want to use this array helper library, but it shouldn't have any permissions" then it would be a lot more useful, but right now if your Deno app needs any file or network access, then all of your dependencies get access too.

Yeah, but I wonder if .NET wouldn't have succeeded until .NET Core without generics as a distinguishing feature. I feel like generics + some of the features built on them (LINQ+TPL+etc.) is what let .NET/C# stand apart from Java.

I'm not necessarily saying it would have failed, but I do wonder :: )

This surprised me:

> It was only through the total dedication of Microsoft Research, Cambridge during 1998-2004, to doing a complete, high quality implementation in both the CLR (including NGEN, debugging, JIT, AppDomains, concurrent loading and many other aspects), and the C# compiler, that the project proceeded.

I didn't realize that it was less a "must-have" and more of a "research and if-possible" task. I wonder how the .NET framework/languages would have changed if they went with type erasure. Would we even still talking about .NET today?

I crave this for C#/.NET; I was hoping the article was going to mention something about faster edit cycle w.r.t. normal apps. It came pretty close:

> ... uses the new Mono IL interpreter to run managed code at runtime... to be used for quickly reloading C# code and prototyping

So maybe it will/can provide the foundation for faster edit cycles with native apps and not just WASM.

I'm curious if this will change now that webapps/electron-apps have become so popular. It may be that users have begun non-native apps as the new norm.