And I don’t ever know if it’ll get better because you need to know why you want to build something someway.

The major issue I’m seeing with junior (and even intermediate) developers is that they trust that the AI will always do things the correct way and don’t question its approach, and they don’t develop proper debugging skills and just rely on the AI to attempt it.

To get decent quality output out of an AI model, you need to have critical thinking skills, at least basic knowledge of the overall architecture for whatever you’re trying to build, and enough knowledge to question the model when it does something wrong.

Blindly trusting AI is why so many old security issues are coming back - stored/reflected XSS, SQL injection, exposing databases directly to the internet with no password, things like that. Newer frameworks mostly got rid of them, and now AI is bringing them back. It’s a fun time for red teams at least.

https://romm.app/ - Self hosted game ROM manager that lets you play retro games directly in the browser (using RetroArch cores compiled to WebAssembly).

https://retroassembly.com/ is a similar project.

There’s also https://gamevau.lt/ which is like a self-hosted version of Steam, for DRM-free games (like from GOG).

That’s a very old way of thinking of things. C# has been cross platform for a long time.

Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs

Not really. Most C# apps use .NET (since the framework and standard library is quite feature-rich) rather than direct Win32 calls, and .NET is cross-platform. A lot of web services are written in C# and deployed to Linux servers.

basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore

You can compile a C# app to a single executable that doesn’t require the framework to be installed.

Are you running Jellyfin, the *arr suite, slskd, or Technitium DNS? They’re all written in C#.

This makes sense! You get the same advantage if the app uses Go or C# though, and both of those can compile to a single statically-linked executable too.

Looks like a good project, but I genuinely don’t quite get why Rust projects feel the need to advertise “written in Rust” as a feature. Do you find that a lot of users care which programming language your app is written in? Does it help with finding contributors?

I don’t know which programming language most of my self-hosted apps use, and I don’t mind since they all work well and do their job.