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

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[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But did you read the last line? This isn't classic control panel, this is the new control panel.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago

Sounds like classic junior engineer shit. “Let’s do a big rewrite!” Followed by everything going to shit because they don’t how to create good maintainable software architecture and for whatever reason there weren’t enough senior engineers around to show them the way.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Same shit trying to implement with systems on the backend older than a lot of people using them today I'd imagine

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 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.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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
}

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah this is classic legacy code.

Complicated code is when 700 projects are all entangled and when you add a 3D bar for measuring purposes (it was just a bar like 100 nanometers long so you could get a feel for size in 3D scans, in the 3D viewer), the up (not the down) mouse scroll stopped working for sliders in all the 2D GUIs...

That is crappy code and I was there when we got that bug (Avizo software).

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

W H A T

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And "the specific resource ID" is almost certainly for localization of the text

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What cracked me up was all that copying blocks of code "because no one knows how anything works".

That reeks of novices copying code without bothering to read it well, and since this work method is horrendous, no one stays enough to stablish a proper knowledge base.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

It's a bit sad, but not that surprising, that if this is true then Microsoft is clearly not tasking their most experienced engineers on the control panel (you know, that part of the OS who's function is to allow you to tweak all the rest of the OS?).

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea, this doesn't sound horrible for what it is. Plenty of Linux systems are this bad.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Plenty of UI applications* are this bad