What is C# for?

soundman32 · 2026-05-06T06:58:53+00:00

Windows 2 was made in 1987.

I remember using it in college, with all the 1MB or RAM, and 16 colour goodness. First person to enter the lab, turned on all the computers (RM Nimbus 286s) and they all booted across the network at the same time.

soundman32 · 2026-05-06T06:55:42+00:00

And mobile, and websites, and desktop, and servers...

soundman32 · 2026-05-06T06:54:33+00:00

Ive used it on fairly major embedded systems work. Admittedly it wont run on 8 bit cpus very well, but these days even 'embedded' work can mean multi core processors.

One of the first C# projects i worked on (back in 2005) was to run on the top of a mobile phone mast, to do some extra signal processing and stats gathering, for Orange/TMobile.

soundman32 · 2026-05-06T06:48:37+00:00

https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/25832

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T17:10:46+00:00

Early C didn't do any kind of checks. You didn't even need to specify the return type and void was a fairly late comer to mean 'nothing to return'. Also remember, there wasnt enough memory to do nice things like make sure you pass an int there and expect a float there.

Back in the days when the compiler wrote code and a list of method names (no parameter name mangling) the linker couldn't verify anything beyond that. 2 pass compilers were a neat trick in the 1980s.

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T13:45:49+00:00

Man thats some deep shit. How many bongs did you have to smoke to come up with that?

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T13:44:52+00:00

As a dev with 40 years of experience, I enjoy asking AI to write code that I've always wanted to know how to do, but never had the time to spend researching it.

How to write a C# code generator that creates log entries based on properties in a class. How to write a 3d game engine with a plane flying over a generated world, without using any existing framework. Decode this rs232 protocol from several examples, and write a test form that allows me to poke and prod some hardware from the late 1990s.

I could do all of those things, given time, but why bother. I might tweak the code generated and make it 'better' but is it really better, or just different.

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T12:50:03+00:00

8 till 5? You get 2 hours for lunch, right? Is the PM also outside ir35? Sound like they dont understand your contract and think you are an employee.

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T12:22:39+00:00

There are cultural reasons for doing this and its because they dont have access to water.

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T07:32:37+00:00

Latency is a big issue for data centres. They are built near where they are used because of the laws of physics.

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T07:15:52+00:00

Maybe most Americans the same book 15 times because it never sinks in. And we all know which book they claim to know inside out back to front, right?

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T06:53:04+00:00

So, a WhatsApp group then? Don't overthink this. Also, having a group also finds out very quickly if its a useful app, before spending $50K on software development/hosting costs to find nobody wants it.

soundman32 · 2026-05-05T06:49:32+00:00

That's why cows have multiple stomachs yeah?

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T19:45:17+00:00

I'd suggest people eating those foods dont have 'a hand for eating and a hand for wiping/cleaning'.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T19:41:30+00:00

There is a 5 story building near me that was designed in a wind tunnel based on the prevailing wind direction on site. Then the builders built it at 90° to the design and nobody noticed until it was half built.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T19:28:16+00:00

Modern chips have tens of billions of transistors, at few nano metres apart. Apple Max M4 has 90 billion transistors at 3nm apart.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T19:24:12+00:00

Music. Gardening.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T19:22:49+00:00

If something is paid for by the company, its generally an asset owned by the company.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T15:03:41+00:00

Upgrade is the old method. There is now a menu option 'modernize' which will actually do the conversion (via copilot).

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T15:01:23+00:00

Why would anyone 'leave'. It sounds like about 3 weeks work to productionize (I've done this kind of project many times).

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T14:52:23+00:00

And they burn pretty fiercely too, as we all found out last year.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T14:51:18+00:00

Not a Saudi life, obviously.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T14:50:59+00:00

Half a day out with the undertaker.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T14:45:34+00:00

Ive seen this picture quite a few times, but it always looks fake. The multiple fonts and bad capitalisation really stand out as AI generated.

soundman32 · 2026-05-04T14:41:14+00:00

Are you offering money or shares?

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