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Swift use value-types by default with copy-on-write semantics.

This isn't true. Copy-on-write semantics are implemented only for arrays, dictionaries, and strings. Swift value-types are copied immediately.

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

If you ever used Win32, you wouldn't mind abandoning it. It is not good API. If you know WPF, you feel like at home with UWP.

Sadly, this video is on the point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

What I meant was you can use WinUI 3 in your Win32 app, so it is a UI toolkit that can be used in any other existing UI toolkit.

He is right. You should check more about C# before you correct others.

You should check all platforms where you can run C#. It runs everywhere.

Blizzard was not bought. It was owned for more than decade by Vivendi, and it merged with Activision.

I wish there was a book that teaches how to create a programming language based on the Roslyn idea.

Outside of US the Uber brand is not so strong. In EU they are very regulated and they compete with local players that understand the market. Asia is also dominated by local players. So Uber exists in these markets, but almost nobody uses it there.

This is more popular in EU. In many countries Amazon even does not operate, and even in Germany people try to prefer different place if they can.

Fuchsia tries to be language agnostic thanks to FIDL. Dart will be one of many options.

You can use docker-machine with VirtualBox. It is not smooth as the native Docker experience, but it is good enough.

But why Electron? There are other cross-platform solutions with great performance.

Does windows right? In our office (Berlin) we are not even allowed to open them.

It is funny people discuss 25°C. We had last week 36°C inside of our office, and a solution from the company? Work from home.

What would it do? Flutter uses same approach to UI.

Only Xamarin.Forms introduces another layer for you (it is the same concept as React Native). If you use Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android you call underlying APIs directly. Although there can be issues with bindings, nothing like you will face with React Native.

I am aware of why C# isn't popular among startups. It is sad because C# is a great language that has amazing tooling support. It runs everywhere - Xamarin for apps, ASP.NET for servers, Blazor for browsers, and it is getting only better, and I cannot imagine how awesome it would be if other companies helped Microsoft. But I can only dream.

It is same with Xamarin. They don't have people that would know these languages, and they would be passionate about them.

Even if that was true the void will be filled with local competitors.

There is another bias where things that are free must be lower quality or there is some catch so I would be careful with that.

It includes a bank account that is huge money and time saving for people outside of US. If you do it elsewhere you will have to fly to the US and open the account yourself.

Hi patio11, this is really great. It would be awesome to have some resources for EU citizens, mainly how it is with taxes and where I tax what and how.

Where are you from?

Indeed, but what I wanted to say this kind of article creates an impression Berlin is cool place with a startup scene where anyone can move and work there and a lot of people ignore their quality of life will decrease because they don't know the language.

You cannot compare holidays with actually living there. In your everyday life you have problems that you don't experience as a tourist or did you order a plumber to fix your pipes? Or did you buy a television that you had to return because it was not working correctly? Try to figure out these problems with your A1 German.

You cannot compare these. You relocate once and after that it is done. Learning a language is on going process that has a lot of phases and you need to do it continuously every single day.

I don't want complain how learning German is hard. I only wanted to mention something that nobody says when they talk about Berling being tech hub.

You don't have this issue in Silicon Valley. Your working language is also your life language.

You find solutions to these problems and you survive. You ask your HR to help you, you ask your acquaintances or friends to go somewhere with you or call somewhere for you and you start limiting your options only to places where they speak English based on sites where they gather English speaking places.

But at end of the day you limit your options because of your handicap and it decreases quality of your life.

I am not saying it is not possible and definitely total immersion helps and at some point you will learn the language but it is not easy to spend 9 hours at work where you speak English and after that go outside and immerse yourself to German for a few hours and do that every single day for at least a year.

Yes, it is normal. I am just saying what is the biggest struggle of non-German worker of Berlin startup from my point of view that almost nobody takes into consideration when they talk about the Berlin startup scene.

I am non-German living and working for a startup in Berlin and so far my biggest struggle is the language barrier. If you don't know German you will be fine in your work but outside you will feel as a stranger. You usually feel it when you go to a doctor, you shop for something more complex, you use services where you need to communicate or you go to government offices or when you look for a flat.

It is possible to learn German but it requires huge effort and dedication and not many people are capable of that.

My guess would be Microsoft. Unity uses C# and it would fit into Microsoft strategy.