151
AF_UNIX comes to Windows
Introduction: Beginning in Insider Build 17063, you’ll be able to use the unix socket (AF_UNIX) address family on Windows to communicate between Win32
Microsoft Developer Blogs
Microsoft for Developers - Get the latest information, insights, and news from Microsoft.
- Popular posts
- 156
- Total points
- 39,128
- HN comments
- 22,375
- Rank
- #13 company
Visit devblogs.microsoft.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Mar 2019 – Nov 2026
Software Engineering 95Systems & Performance 57History & Retro Computing 41Programming Languages 31Tools & Productivity 15Society, Policy & Culture 9
152
Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
153
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway
Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
154
C11 and C17 Standard Support Arriving in MSVC
Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. Update: Windows 10 SDK version 2104 has been
155
The largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]
156
An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector
The computer itself ceases to exist.