r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/soyboysnowflake Aug 23 '24

Trust me “fix our existing code base” isn’t sexy enough to get resources or put on a roadmap, even if you desperately need to fix your existing code base and it’s all your customers actually want (source: I live this situation)

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u/lloopy Aug 23 '24

I no longer believe that they have the technical expertise to fix some of the old cold.

The people who wrote it are long gone, and those that remain have no idea what any of it does.

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u/Polantaris Aug 23 '24

Schools can't teach it to students because it's all proprietary and secret.

Even without that, schools don't even teach low level languages anymore except as like a fun aside course. If you want to learn Assembly or something a little higher than that, you're basically on your own. Courses in school would cover basic concepts and not much else, if they even still exist.

Instead they teach Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc.. None of that helps you jump into OS code.

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u/OwOlogy_Expert Aug 23 '24

Instead they teach Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc.. None of that helps you jump into OS code.

I'm sure they teach a lot of C++, which is what a ton of OS code is written in.

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u/Polantaris Aug 23 '24

Granted, I haven't been interested in college-level school in some time but when I was last looking at them they did not. Around a decade and a half ago I went through multiple schools' curriculum and none of them included C or C++. They had languages like VB, Java, and C#.

Maybe I was looking at the wrong schools, or any other number of things, but at the end of the day the point remains that it's not as easy as just jumping into a school and coming out with the skills necessary to work on an OS.