@scottalanmiller said:

It's much like how COBOL and Fortran take quite a beating today. But they were breakthroughs at the time and were really important.

In the context of their time COBOL, FORTRAN, et al were important, but today they're lumbering proto-dinosaurs. It's more disturbing than anything else how much out there still uses it and should've been replaced long ago.

I was going to mention flash as well, and what I like is how flash is finally on its way out, and mostly only gets used now for video. We fail over to flash player for some of our older videos which are not re-encoded (we've been slowly re-encoding to something HTML5 friendly, but there are 2 million videos so it's taking a while) and also fail over if the person simply doesn't have HTML 5 video playing for whatever reason.

.NET is great as a platform and C# is great as a language. F# is really sweet too. Microsoft has great language tools, in general. Since MS started off pretty much as a language company before anything else this is a bit of their wheelhouse.

I've seen DB2 in use, we had so many machines with it holding customer information.

I was young then, and the memories have stayed with me.

The horror, the horror..

Then the company bought out another company which also had DB2 on some old Unix V knock off and some weird flat file thing on some PDP-somethings and we had to interlink the services and slowly transition everyone over.

I've been working with PHP 7, it's pretty impressive so far, I really love the type hinting / pseudo-static typing -- it's something I've wanted for PHP for over a decade. There are missing extensions which haven't been ported and most importantly, xdebug, doesn't look like it'll be ported for a while, as on github I noticed the primary contributors were complaining that it'd be "too hard" to do it. In the mean time I created a drop in replacement which works somewhat OK:

http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/php-7-replacement-for-xdebug-tracing/

Code is under MIT/X11, because unlike Stallman, I don't believe in forcing you to let me see your code, in other words, I've showed you mine, you need not show me yours 😉

I, too, am concerned that results on my phone are not as good as the results on the computer. I often get search pages that are nothing but ads and unable to find things that, on a computer, are easy to search for. I've never been happy with mobile-only pages or mobile-altered search results.

odd, it was the link right off of the article site.

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More advanced load balancing appears to be the biggest feature.

Relevant - From Joy of Tech.

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@Dashrender said:

I take it you don't game on your desktop then? or do much that wants processing power?

Don't "game" on my work machines and as I work in IT, I can't imagine what would take power on my desktop. Even development tasks are pretty good from a Chromebook. Only issue I've had there is that JetBrains stuff won't install there. But c9.io is a nice replacement.

Actually what gaming I do IS on that desktop. Seven year old desktop plays most of our games just fine. I only play games with the kids.

@scottalanmiller said:

Or, far better, that ReactOS and other projects like Wine could stop trying to rewrite the Windows code and could focus on replacing the components that Microsoft can't release. Piece by piece they could leverage the MS code to make the whole thing free. Much like the BSD projects did long ago to free UNIX from AT&T.

Well, I think you're just asking for the moon when it comes to a lot of people interested in Windows.

@thecreativeone91 well it is already April and no release schedule given yet that I have seen so not likely to be anytime super soon.