Kiru kiru

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

Apple’s bugs

I still enjoy using Apple products and prefer them over alternatives, but in recent years, an increasing number of small bugs has made using them less pleasant. No single bug is fatal, but they add up. I wanted to document them to make it more likely that they will be fixed.

There are two main topics:

Many small unnecessary bugs
Strategy tax

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Kiru kiru

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

Apple’s bugs

Small unnecessary bugs