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Home About Eric Topics SourceGear Selected Blog Posts Thursday, 4 November 2021 Trustworthiness is a feature In which I hope that Microsoft really wants to be a company that loves developers Tuesday, 21 September 2021 SourceGear Bridge preview: Swift with .NET in Xcode A demo of a simple web app using Swift, ASP.NET Core 6, and Xcode Monday, 26 July 2021 Alpaca Preview: Native Swift with ASP.NET Core Alpaca is, er, Llama without Llama Tuesday, 29 June 2021 Will deep understanding still be valuable? Crabby old guy sees GitHub Copilot and says "get off my lawn", except with more words Tuesday, 8 June 2021 Llama Preview: Swift with ASP.NET Core Musing out loud about the possibilities of ASP.NET for server-side Swift Wednesday, 28 April 2021 Llama Preview: Swift Closures and Delegates Support for converting Swift closures into .NET delegates, with callAsFunction syntax Monday, 19 April 2021 Llama Preview: Swift on .NET I see the potential for Swift to feel like a good fit for .NET. Wednesday, 10 March 2021 Calling .NET APIs from Rust This is, without a doubt, the worst implementation of 'grep' I've ever heard of. Tuesday, 23 February 2021 Llama Rust SDK preview 0.1.4 Fixing problems until an SVG rendering library kinda works Tuesday, 9 February 2021 Llofty Ambitions People would be more willing to adopt .NET if they could bring their favorite language with them. Sunday, 31 January 2021 Llama Rust SDK preview 0.1.3 Progress on std. Still not ready for prime time. Tuesday, 19 January 2021 Preview: The SQLite Llibrary as a .NET assembly A preview release of SQLite compiled for .NET with Llama Thursday, 8 October 2020 Llama preview 0.1.2 A dotnet tool for compiling an LLVM bitcode file into a dotnet assembly Monday, 20 April 2020 SourceGear.Rust.NET preview 0.1.0 Don't even think about trying to use this for real work. Tuesday, 10 March 2020 My exploration of Rust and .NET A long yarn about some work I've been doing toward the ability to use Rust for .NET development. Tuesday, 15 October 2019 .NET Core -- Choices What happens when you reach the point where everything you want to do is too risky? Wednesday, 2 October 2019 Xamarin.Forms: LayoutOptions Things with LayoutOptions in Xamarin.Forms can get weird. Monday, 16 September 2019 Xamarin.Forms: StackLayout vs Grid An example from Xamarin.Forms of how choosing the path that is the most convenient for the developer can end up making things worse for the user. Wednesday, 14 August 2019 Nullable references in C# 8.0 There are a few aspects of C# 8.0 nullable references that may seem surprising, but I like my compiler to complain about potential problems, so I am enthusiastic about using this feature more. Tuesday, 2 July 2019 Using Span for high performance interop with unmanaged libraries The challenges of interop with an unmanaged library that deals in zero-terminated strings Monday, 24 June 2019 Dynamic loading of native code with .NET My problem with DllImport is that the library name has to be hard-coded at compile time. Tuesday, 30 April 2019 Exploring wasm2cil performance Very early and very rough comparisons against wasmtime and native Tuesday, 23 April 2019 Running WebAssembly and WASI with .NET A project that can take a WebAssembly/WASI module and convert it into a .NET assembly on disk. Wednesday, 10 April 2019 Bringing 12-year-old WPF code to .NET Core 3 This code was developed on .NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005, but it required only minimal effort to bring it into the modern age. Tuesday, 9 April 2019 (Follow-up to) Attracting more developers to F# Most of the feedback I received was positive, but not all of it, and I now see that my post had some minor problems, and a couple of major ones. Friday, 5 April 2019 Attracting more developers to F# The least effective way to promote F# adoption is the one that comes most naturally. Monday, 25 March 2019 Building PepTown with .NET: App Overview PepTown is our smartphone-based fundraising solution for high-school sports teams. The architecture of PepTown is .NET throughout. This blog entry is an overview of some of the choices we made when building the mobile app. Tuesday, 19 March 2019 Non-idiomatic F# I claim that writing non-functional F# works out WAY better than writing functional C#. Wednesday, 15 June 2016 SQLite and Android N The upcoming release of Android N is going to cause problems for many apps that use SQLite. Monday, 8 June 2015 My initial experience with Rust I wrote a bunch of Rust code. I liked it. Monday, 5 January 2015 Why your F# evangelism isn't working Yes, F# has a seven year head start, but Swift will cross the chasm first. This has nothing to do with the relative merits of these two languages. The simple fact is that C# is kinda great and Objective-C is kinda dreadful. Monday, 14 May 2007 Requirements But right after a spec is written, a document is usually the wrong form. It started out as a document only because that form was most convenient for the author. But a document is not the most convenient form for the people who are reading or using the spec, and those people have the author outnumbered. Most of those readers/users want that spec to be a database instead of a document. Friday, 11 November 2005 My life as a Code Economist So why would an ISV ever intentionally release a product with known bugs? Tuesday, 19 August 2003 Career Calculus I submit that worrying about how others perceive your C value is a waste of time. The key to a great career is to focus on L, the first derivative of the equation. L is the rate at which your cluefulness is changing over time. The actual value of C at any given moment is usually a distraction. Only one question matters: With each day that goes by, are you getting more clueful, or less clueful? Or are you just stuck? Tuesday, 15 April 2003 Memoirs From the Browser Wars We sold our browser technology to 120 companies, but one of them slaughtered the other 119.Copyright 2001-2021 Eric Sink. All Rights ReservedIf you are in need of contract software development services, I would appreciate your consideration of SourceGear.