That means you couldn't just dabble and see what happens, cause if you so much as entertained the notion of putting your application up on an app store (even if it was free), you were required to pay out hefty sums on a monthly basis. (Their 'free' offering was such a joke that I pretend it doesn't even exist).Īll the major cross-platform game engines have gone the 'pay us when you make some money' route, but the major application toolkits like Xamarin and QT refused to let go of their expensive subscription models. I really wanted to learn Xamarin, but their pricing started at ouchy, and then went batshit ludicrous. encryption, which is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it." But this one, yeah, they could've spent 7 words to fill in the uninformed about what a Xamarin is.Īs much as I hate Microsoft, this is absolutely fantastic news. Note that this is audience-specific-if you're writing for /., you shouldn't have to say ". "Microsoft today announced that ^F+7d#, a popular object-disoriented programming language, is now available for free for every Visual Studio user." "Microsoft today announced that Sprug, a responsive framework for synergizing cloud competencies, is now available for free for every Visual Studio user." "Microsoft today announced that Zazzlebazzle, a tool for dynamically replacing code comments with emojis, is now available for free for every Visual Studio user." People skimming a summary, even smart, technically minded people who are Google search ninjas, don't want to have to go traipsing off somewhere else to investigate why they should even be reading the summary in the first place. It's just good policy in writing: don't fight human nature. Yes, it is also reasonable to expect a news summary (anywhere) to give at least a cursory explanation of abbreviations, technical terms, or made up words with which a substantial portion of the readership will be unfamiliar.
Yes, it is reasonable, in general, to expect people to Google easy-to-find information. See something that you're not familiar with? Look it up! One of the reasons why I come here is to be exposed to tech that I haven't seen before. If you have to ask, you should first look it up, then ask an informed question
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