Ok, I'm in for $2 /month too, thanks for setting the standard!

C# is a great language, I don't know much about game dev but I know unity and godot game engines have good support for c#. You can target Windows/Linux/Mac on all the common architectures. All the build tools are available on the command line if that's your thing.

This is the right idea imo. Tax wealth, not income.

Problem is, programmers don't want AI. We want better tools that address the issues of complexity and abstract requirements management.

I very much disagree with this, Null Reference Exceptions have been a huge problem in c#. Nullable reference types are a partial fix, but the question of "how do I 'return' an error from a statically typed method" is not answered there.

Thank you, I'd love to hear back from you.

Check the edit on the post, I thought I had linked to the GitHub page but I guess the image overrides that.

Link: https://github.com/Andy3432344/SafeResults

Check the edit on the post, I thought I had linked to the GitHub page but I guess the image overrides that.

Link: https://github.com/Andy3432344/SafeResults

The operator being applied to the ResultObject will always resolve to the Generic type that was specified as 'T in IResult<T>. If the function is not successful the resolved value will be whatever value was supplied to the ResultObject constructor, the opt.None property will true and the opt.Some property will be false.

The example is simplified, but I dislike returning null in my own code. The function will always execute, left or right doesn't matter it's mapped across in the ResultObject class.

The function must return an IResult<T>, the ResultObject analyzes the IResult<T> checking for IFail or IOk. If it's IOk the value of type T is retrieved from the Value property of the IOk<T> object and returned, the Some property defaults to true. If the IResult<T> is an IFail, Some is set to false, it copies the message from the IFail object into the ResultObject, and returns the value the was supplied to its constructor.

I'm just sharing something I find useful, and I hope I can make it useful for others as well. Thanks for the questions.

Here's a real world side project example of how I handle this situation:

 public IResult<T> GetResourceValue<T>(string path)
    {
        string err = $"{typeof(T).FullName} is not available from this Resource ({nameof(FileSystemResource)})";

        switch (typeof(T))
        {
            case Type t when t == typeof(DriveInfo):
                return (IResult<T>)new Ok<DriveInfo>(BackingValue);
            case Type t when t == typeof(DirectoryInfo):
                err = $"Directory path invalid: {path}";
                var dir = new DirectoryInfo(path);

                if (dir.Exists)
                    return (IResult<T>)new Ok<DirectoryInfo>(dir);
                break;
            case Type t when t == typeof(FileInfo):
                err = $"File path invalid: {path}";
                var file = new FileInfo(path);

                if (file.Exists)
                    return (IResult<T>)new Ok<FileInfo>(file);
                break;
        }
        return new Error<T>(err);
    }

You said elsewhere that it feels like you're doing something wrong if you have to check for every type just to use a Generic. I think you're right in thinking along those lines. There should be a minimal number of types to check, and Ideally limited via a type constraint.

Here's example that includes a constraint:

    public IResult<T> GetValue<T>() where T : struct =>
        typeof(T) switch
        {
            Type t when t == typeof(int) && value <= int.MaxValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<int>((int)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(uint) && value <= uint.MaxValue && value >= uint.MinValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<uint>((uint)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(byte) && value <= byte.MaxValue && value >= byte.MinValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<byte>((byte)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(sbyte) && value <= (int)sbyte.MaxValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<sbyte>((sbyte)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(short) && value <= (int)short.MaxValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<short>((short)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(ushort) && value <= ushort.MaxValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<ushort>((ushort)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(long) && value <= long.MaxValue =>
             (IResult<T>)new Ok<long>((long)value),
            Type t when t == typeof(ulong) => (IResult<T>)new Ok<int>((int)value),
            _ => new IntegerError<T>()
        };

They even know they're being lied to, and still go along.

I use fancy zones for windows, and I have a zone that compromises one 4k screen and half of two others. That zone is for my VS window, two main code panes in the center and one off to each side.

It doesn't remember the layout of the tool windows... I'll have to look into the save/apply functionality you mentioned.

I prefer VS over vs-code, but in VS the window/tabs are bulky and slow compared to vs code which makes this all more annoying. First world problems though...

Edit: using VS 2022 on win 10

Not OP, but in agreement. I like to split out multiple vertical panes in VS, and I put the edges of the panes at the edge of the monitors. It's tedious to position them manually, and different tool windows run when debugging so I have to reposition the pane boundary's again whenever switching between run/design time. It would be nice if it detected the edge of the monitors and kept the scroll bars and break-point column on the correct sides of the split.

In 2008 Americans elected a black man president, and the Republicans lost their shit and went scorched earth.

The relatively new Nostr protocol is a very interesting decentralized option. It uses relay servers to provide a secure connection between two (or more) clients which maintain the data, nothing is "stored" on the relay.

Can we put those involved in prison?

I thought it was sarcasm

daddy Trump

How do you even stand yourself?

[their children] don’t have parents who show up and help them.

[their leadership] focuses on a political agenda more than they care about actually helping somebody’s life look better.

Every accusation is an admission...

The word they're looking for is 'corruption'.

The wording reminded me of Demolition Man

Lol

What is the social security system was run by China?

That's your great analogy. This is a social media company. Gtfoh

It's a bad analogy. Mass surveillance (continuous collection of everyone's data) has very little to do with the number we use to track social security payments.

We're talking about individuals' personal data stored by social media companies being accessible to others (governments, in this case). This has nothing to do with social security.

The problem is that the data is accessable, but that's not being addressed. This is an improper fix to an actual problem, just facts.

Access to the data it's what matters, ownership is just one method of access.

Which is the topic we should be discussing, along with WHO is on the take.

Then why are the affects on Congress so oversized?

I don't think he does, he doesn't mind playing the fool...

I agree that report and record are different. To me record means it's preserved in some managed way.

The implementation has the ability to vary quite widely from simply printing to stdout, logging to a file, writing to a queue / database, and yet the same name will continue to reflect all those possibilities

This makes it sound like the intent goes beyond logging, but not so far as recording. That's how I come to 'report' as the correct verb.

I would use reportMissingData

I just experienced this issue, my phone froze for maybe 30 seconds then came up with the pop-up like you said.

I have a new Motorola think phone.

And Obama caved like always

You mean with quarters, at the newspaper stand?

I literally rearranged the headline wording

CrowdTangle is Meta's tool for election integrity, they're shutting it down without a replacement.

Not to mention paid off

He was obedient to the party

So then he's innocent, case closed.

But then AIPAC will stop donating