On: Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming...

[brobinson]

My only beef right now with Microsoft is their insistence on having creepy telemetry in everything. As someone _very_ interested in F#, I encountered this recently with both Visual Studio Code and .NET Core.

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093

[LeonB → brobinson]

The linked thread discusses the telemetry and if you follow it through telemetry is now off by default, opt-in only.

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/10816

[brobinson → LeonB]

I followed the linked threads and I don't see where it says telemetry is off by default. I just see people saying that it _should_ be off by default. Am I missing something?

[LeonB → brobinson]

Sorry, I misread the threads, I think you're right. There's notification when you install it, but the notification is that it's on by default. The notification also explains how to switch it off (with an environment variable).

[xvilka → brobinson]

You can always switch to the original - the OCaml language.

[brobinson → xvilka]

I spent a while looking at OCaml, but I'd like to use more than one cpu and not have to deal with four standard libraries...