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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful... (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

I don't think this is legit because even as I was reading it, I was expecting it to sound a lot worse than it ended up sounding. Like, it didn't sound great or anything, but it didn't sound nearly as fucked up as I would expect firsthand descriptions of piled-on legacy code to sound after almost 50 fucking years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Seriously, it doesn’t sound great, but it sounds about what you might expect wiring up a new UI widget in WPF or whatever the latest thing for native Windows is. Sounds like what would happen if you started developing a Windows app using the Microsoft scaffolding and never applied any kind of software architecture beyond that and it just grew and grew into a big ball of mud. Exactly what I would expect given the quality of so many of their frameworks, and I say that as a professional dotnet software engineer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The complete lack of error reporting in the compiler is a surprise though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

True, that is surprising and makes everything worse. It's probably controlled by a setting that none of those engineers knows how to change, based on the lack of knowledge described here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My guess is that a stack trace is being generated, but something further down the chain is consuming it, realizes there's an error, and just throws -1 instead of the stack trace itself.

Something like

try {
    compileThisDamnProgram()
} catch Exception {
    return -1
}

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