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jitbit
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Hi. I'm Alex, I live in the UK and I run a small self-funded startup - https://www.jitbit.com. My blog is at https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog
- True - if we're talking about actual security bugs, not the "CVE slop"
P.S. I'm an open source maintainer myself, and I used to think, "oh, OSS developers should just stop whining and fix stuff." Fast forward a few years, and now I'm buried under false-positive "reports" and overwhelmed by non-coding work (deleting issue spam, triage, etc.)
P.P.S. What's worse, when your library is a security component the pressure’s even higher - one misplaced loc could break thousands of apps (we literally have a million downloads at nuget [1] )
- I'm founder of a 100% .NET based company (15 years, 1mil LOC), all development happens on Macs, production servers run linux. No issues so far.
No, really, I'm facing more issues from Cursor based based on a year-old upstream version of VSCode than from this, heh...
- For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%.
We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally.
I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.
- Why is this flagged? This is pretty significant actually.
So stories like this are no longer possible? https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45734582
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- We run a (pretty) big multi-tenant SaaS app on dotnet and I was literally able to downgrade our production servers from 4-core-16GB vms to 2-core-8GB on AWS when going from .NET 6 to .NET 8 (we only use LTS releases b/c compliance, don't ask). Super excited to try .NET 10. Also, almost zero breaking changes when bumping versions, which is very refreshing compared to the front-end world.
That said, while C# (and the dotnet runtime) are awesome, MS is doing it a disservice lately (poor tooling, Cursor/VSCode controversy etc. etc.) C# could've been so much bigger...
- 4 points
- So they make "building your own Cursor" easier. But at the same time they ban your fork from using Extension Marketplace.
For context: last month they banned Cursor and all other forks from using C++, C# Dev Kit, Python and other extensions. Guess this was preparation for this move.
- I'm so sorry. It's https://cap.so/
- cam.so (opensource, free for personal, local)
- This is the author's 3rd or 4th attempt to launch a product in this niche, Interactivedemo.ai (ProductHunt launch), demo.fun (link in their profile), a chrome extension with the same name (never took off), etc. I got this all from their Twitter profile
I'm a bootstrapped software developer myself, so I can't decide if I should admire this or flag this as spam. But you're probably right, we're getting a "pricing" page very soon.
- That, plus:
* Echarts is about the only dependency in our project that I can upgrade - and be sure it never breaks anything. It is so well-thought in that regard. Upgrading for 3.x to 5.x? Sure! "npm update" and everything just keeps working smoothly. That is so refreshing to see these days. Unbelievable.
* It's both SSR-friendly and SPA-friendly. Being mostly vanilla-js, works seamlessly with both react/vue/apline AND with old-school rails/asp.net/php/whatever. Our app is pretty classic SSR (https://www.jitbit.com/) and I can construct my chart's JSON object on a server using some linq-queries and provide that to echarts.
* ...OR I can give it a reactive object from vue-based SPA. Dun matter, it just works.
* whenever we have to add some workarounds (like, showing hovering labels on a pie chart with a bold percentages or something) - I never have to dig into their sources. Almost anything has already been figured out. Easily googlable and "LLM-able".
- What do you mean by "standard base extension"?
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- I wouldn't say "affordable". Looking at their pricing page right now. A US-based 64GB RAM cloud server in OVH - $539
AWS is $220 (us-east, r6a.2xlarge instance, 1yr reserved)
- I used to think iPhone revolutionized the World. Now think it ruined it.
Internet is a TV form the 80s/90s. Mindless, soulless engagement machine we all stare into.
My team has relied on the Microsoft stack for over a decade (dotnet, GitHub Actions, VS Code, MS extensions), and I can say that the overall quality and “polish” of their releases has declined.
I try to help where I can—filing issues for outdated docs, contributing to dotnet/core, joining discussions about .NET 10 still not being available in Ubuntu APT feeds, reporting and helping resolve issues with MSSQL drivers and SqlClient on GitHub, etc.
But every time I interact with someone at Microsoft, I can’t help but read between the lines: they seem slightly demotivated by the company's shift toward an AI-first focus.
It's sad.