Swift vs C# – Similar semantics, but Swift is more wrist friendly
31 lines in C#: private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias; Rectangle rect
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C++ versus Objective-C as API substrate
Windows 8 marks the start of the end of the ancient workhorse API – Win32. Win32, along with COM, underlies
Read moreWinRT and Cocoa – API evolution: MS vs. Apple
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html After digesting the above, I’m suddenly a bit apprehensive about whether Microsoft know what they’re doing or not. The
Read moreiOS versus Windows 8 versus Android – developer ecosystem
Let’s study the pros and cons. Apple have the sanest API/platform evolution and the best IDE. I have hated IDEs
Read moreThe future of “Java” is with Google, and on Dalvik
(subtitle: “The Future of Microsoft, sealed?” ) I think that going forward, considering the following, a) James Gosling and Jim
Read moreWindows Phone 7 and Microsoft’s future – too little, too late?
I have been quite excited about Windows Phone 7 since it was first leaked to press, and now with its
Read moreOracle owning Java means death for the latter
I have always felt, despite the competition coming from .Net and the great strides made by the CLR, that Java’s
Read moreMicrosoft should replace IE with a CoreCLR-based browser
I wrote a blog article a few months back, Microsoft’s 3-front war, Part 1 where I was going to explain
Read moreDLL handling in Windows x64: The Big Gotcha
I had a nasty time trying to get the PHP module to run under Apache 2.2 in Windows 7 x64.
Read moreGoogle Chrome’s architecture explained in comics
URL at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html Since today’s browser environment is rapidly becoming the equivalent of an OS, the innovations in Chrome seem
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