Aaron Stainback

• DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism

  4 days ago

  Why did you use Task.Factory.StartNew and call the query.Execute() instead of using Task.Factory.FromAsync and calling ExecuteAsync().  Wouldn't this perform better and look pretty much identical?  Thanks.

• Stephan T. Lavavej: Core C++, 1 of n

  May 17, 2012 at 6:04 PM

  I also would like to see forward declarations.  I'm also curious about typedef and as much as possible about the Preprocessor if that's considered part of the core c++.  Thanks.

• Go In Three Easy Pieces

  Apr 14, 2012 at 1:10 PM

  I love ad-hoc\duck typing.  I think this is one of the best features in Go.  In C# it is very painful to get something close to duck typing\ad hoc interfaces without a lot of performance penalties..  I usually switch over to F# and static ^ types for my structural typing needs.  One of the biggest problems with any large code base in almost any language in my opinion are these weird object hierarchies that only the original designer can understand. (or maybe no one can understand)  The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in an early preview version had great duck typing support but in the recent versions it has been removed.  I wish it was still there.

• Language Support for Asynchronous Programming

  Apr 13, 2012 at 8:02 PM

  @milgner I think this would be a blocking wait and it think it will only work in Metro style apps.  I was really hoping for a await language feature in C++ that would do the auto continuation (state machine) kind of thing like C# (Non Blocking).  Herb mentioned having this language feature possibly in the future with his talk here http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/-Not-Your-Father-s-C-

  It took a while for that video to go up so I was completely unaware that Herb was already thinking about await as a C++ language extension or I would not have mentioned it again.  Thanks all language guys at Lang.Next, I've been very impressed.

• Herb Sutter: (Not Your Father’s) C++

  Apr 13, 2012 at 7:53 PM

  @hsutter I'm so excited to hear you talking about a possible await language feature for C++.  And now I just read your comments about a possible safe mode, I'm running out of reasons to choose C# over C++ on many types of projects now.

• Alexandrescu, Bright, Meijer, Moran: Pure versus Native (and much more)

  Apr 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM

  Every time I hear Andrei Alexandrescu talk it makes me want to start programming in D.  What a great technical salesman.    I think this is a great comparison between two amazing languages on opposite sides of the spectrum.  Too bad Lang.Next its only once a year, it's like Christmas for me!!

• Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)

  Apr 10, 2012 at 6:52 PM

  Here is another great video with Carl Hewitt going over the actor model some more and some history.

  http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/computer-systems-colloquium/id420052381

  He is video #1 How to Program the Many Cores for Inconsistency Robustness

• Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)

  Apr 10, 2012 at 6:39 PM

  More like this please.   Carl Hewitt is brilliant!!  Also thanks so much Clemens for the summation at the end, it was very helpful.  And always Erik was great; I had many of the same thoughts like tail recursion and event loops basically being the same thing.  I would love to see some specific examples of where these break down as compared to the actor model.  I still don't 100% understand the distinction in my head.  Thanks guys.

• Using the Kinect to model your world with ReconstructMe

  Apr 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM

  Great Post!!!!! This will work great with robotics studio simulation environment!!

• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages

  Apr 10, 2012 at 7:26 AM

  @dot_tom with the recent release of iOS 5 and auto ref counting by the compiler, (I'm not talking about smart pointers) Apple has a really nice story around memory management in my opinion. Even before the auto ref counting having nicely named functions to denote ownership was really nice.  I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who really loves Microsoft but also has a fond place for Apple.  I almost felt like a traitor. 

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