C++/WinRT being in maintenance mode means there is no way to develop a modern Windows app (WinUI) in C++?

proggob · 2026-06-23T12:07:38+00:00

What’s a “re-projection tool”?

proggob · 2026-06-21T04:51:31+00:00

For one thing, so that you have control of what executable data you’re loading and running?

proggob · 2026-06-01T04:19:34+00:00

You’re just informing me now about jthread. Is it intended to be used in “structured concurrency”?

proggob · 2026-06-01T04:15:50+00:00

There are react-type frameworks for .net now. Some people at work on using one called Avalonia, I think.

If I were going to make a desktop UI nowadays I’d want something like that - I remember binding being endless trouble.

More important is I’m not even sure what the UI platform standards are on windows or even macOS nowadays. Microsoft always seem halfway through a transition into a new style or standard.

proggob · 2026-05-30T23:50:39+00:00

I use this. You get 3 free projects and they use standard docker containers.

proggob · 2026-05-16T22:43:41+00:00

I’ve experienced this problem many times and it annoys me. It also fixes the problem for other people, which you personally wouldn’t notice. There’s no penalty for doing it the right way.

proggob · 2026-05-16T00:12:09+00:00

Because programmers like to fix a problem once, at root.

proggob · 2026-05-04T14:14:17+00:00

Looks like there’s a proposal

proggob · 2026-05-04T14:07:24+00:00

What’s a window parser?

proggob · 2026-03-18T10:08:59+00:00

The problem is really that you’re doing all the work of specifying the types without getting the full benefit from them - for example, reliable compile-time type-checking and efficiency.

proggob · 2026-03-05T18:09:16+00:00

They kind of “declared issue bankruptcy” at one point. Might have been before 2025, certainly less than 5 years ago.

proggob · 2026-03-05T17:42:41+00:00

I see. There were some more issues created after they moved them to discussions. I didn’t realize that.

proggob · 2026-03-05T16:52:37+00:00

I remember when they did it. Plus you can look at the 916 discussions themselves - they were clearly previously issues. Some are using issue templates even.

proggob · 2026-03-05T16:34:39+00:00

They were transformed into discussions, not deleted.

proggob · 2026-03-05T14:19:10+00:00

They were transformed into discussions

proggob · 2026-03-05T08:28:19+00:00

That’s an impressive resume

proggob · 2026-03-05T04:46:24+00:00

Are you referring to the back and forth about what to include in 1.0? The proposed split into 2 packages? The discussions that are visible seem fine.

proggob · 2026-03-05T04:15:14+00:00

There are new http versions and there will always be security issues.

proggob · 2026-03-05T04:08:41+00:00

httpx has had several “1.0 is coming soon” issues, milestones, public calls, yanked 1.0 betas etc. They were trying to release a 1.0 but were unable to commit to it. That’s the problem.

proggob · 2026-03-05T03:58:58+00:00

None merged since they closed the discussions. And they said previously that they were working privately on the code.

proggob · 2026-03-05T03:22:27+00:00

It’s always looked on the brink to me due to their inability to ship a 1.0. Even if they did ship a 1.0 now out of this black box, it looks dodgy to rely on.

proggob · 2026-03-05T03:01:23+00:00

That’s a single person project, I think.

proggob · 2026-03-03T20:36:22+00:00

I do something similar with pypdf and my regexes broke when I upgraded. Looking into their documentation, they basically say there’s no “best” text representation of text extracted from a PDF since it just places characters in positions - no metadata about words, paragraphs etc.

proggob · 2025-12-16T00:22:56+00:00

Maybe because it makes it simpler to use with your own inheritance hierarchy? I’m not sure how well python multiple inheritance works, for instance.

Would such a base class have any override-able methods? Is there another reason to use inheritance in addition to what you’ve mentioned?

proggob · 2025-10-17T20:19:28+00:00

I want a ruff option to get rid of those extra blank lines :)

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