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New comment by mrsmrtss in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

mrsmrtss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:30:52 +0000

Maybe this is why they retired Single Server PostgreSQL and are now offering only the new Azure Database for PostgreSQL (flexible server). Zero problem with the latter for us so far.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

mrsmrtss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:29:21 +0000

I see that it's fashionable to bash everything MS related in HN, but let's not pretend that the other major cloud providers don't have their own problems (e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f77... or https://blog.barrack.ai/google-gemini-api-key-vulnerability/). We have had a couple of critical services hosted on Azure over ten years already, call me lucky, but we haven't had any major incidents. That said, the AI Foundry side is broken garbage at the moment, but so is also AI stuff from other providers.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

mrsmrtss — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:11:33 +0000

Fully agree with this! I think today .NET is probably the most batteries included platform you can get. This means that even if you use third-party libraries, these typically depend only on first-party dependencies, making it much less likely for something shady to sneak in.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Java is fast, code might not be"

mrsmrtss — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:20:48 +0000

Autoboxing is more a Java problem mainly because of type erasure with generics. C# has "proper" generics and no hidden boxing is occuring there.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

mrsmrtss — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:21:00 +0000

I think that goes for any major cloud provider, not only AWS. But nothing is free, you pay a hefty premium to get this (compared to plain infra providers like Hetzner for example).

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Tony Hoare has died"

mrsmrtss — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:40:17 +0000

Add WarningsAsErrors for prject and you are done.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

mrsmrtss — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:59:55 +0000

I had the exact same thoughts reading it.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

mrsmrtss — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:13:53 +0000

True, it's in preview currently, but actually .NET is already very efficient with async today also - https://hez2010.github.io/async-runtimes-benchmarks-2024/ (.NET9 tested here).

New comment by mrsmrtss in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

mrsmrtss — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:40:56 +0000

In .NET 11 C# async management moved to the runtime, mostly eliminating heap allocations and also bringing clean stack traces. You really only need to think about ConfigureAwait(false) when building shared libraries or dealing with UI frameworks (even there you mostly don't need it).

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

mrsmrtss — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:03:20 +0000

No, it's not, it's a SQL builder.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

mrsmrtss — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:52:11 +0000

> I favor a more functional style of programming and C# ends up making everything 5 times more verbose than Kotlin.

As if you can't program C# functional style.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?"

mrsmrtss — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:38:27 +0000

Care to elaborate what problems you have with .NET package manager (Nuget) and build process? I think having a single way of doing things a is in itself a big bonus compared to the situation in Java (Maven vs Gradle).

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?"

mrsmrtss — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:29:05 +0000

.NET, VueJS, and PostgreSQL are also my preferred stack today. For back-end development, C# .NET is a super productive and performant stack, and it would be foolish to disregard it.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density"

mrsmrtss — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:50:59 +0000

The Benchmarks Game has some highly optimized implementations and is not a good representation of typical code. Some languages allow you to go a lot lower than others if needed, which adds verbosity, that does not mean typical code must be verbose. There are things possible in C# that you just can't do in Java, for example. That does not mean typical Java code is more concise than C#. On the contrary, typical C# would be probably considerably more "dense".

New comment by mrsmrtss in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

mrsmrtss — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:11:25 +0000

So giving a gun to someone mentally challanged is not dangerous for you too?

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density"

mrsmrtss — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:50:30 +0000

Probably not, but it’d be closer to Clojure. Depending on codebase you’ll likely have also many repeating namespace imports (can be avoided whith implicit usings in modern C#) etc.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density"

mrsmrtss — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:55:45 +0000

C'mon, this is a bs "research".

Fore example, is this Java (65.72% dryness)

    if (condition){
      Blah();
    }

really more dense than this C# (58.4% dryness)?

    if (condition)
    {
      Blah();
    }

Now, does this Clojure 77.91 dryness) really beats them both to that margin?

   (if (condition) 
      (blah)))

This metric measures formatting more than anything else. I don't even go to other more nuanced details.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Why Elixir is the best language for AI – Dashbit Blog"

mrsmrtss — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:50:01 +0000

What anecdotal experience? Not that I think LLMs produce good code, but for me it has produced a lot better c# than TypeScript fo example. I guess quality matters more than quantity when it comes to LLMs training data.

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc."

mrsmrtss — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:44:48 +0000

I don't know why this is downvoted, because the statement is not wrong (https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...). Times have changed, modern .NET is very fast and is getting faster still (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...).

New comment by mrsmrtss in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

mrsmrtss — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:31:34 +0000

There actually is a great GUI story also for Linux today enabled by the excellent Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net).