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[2285.36 --> 2296.16] And then I have, like, SAS and Python and ESLint and also Babel ES6, ES7 syntax coloring one.
[2297.62 --> 2298.72] And that's it.
[2298.78 --> 2302.04] I should probably actually delete all these and start new.
[2303.56 --> 2304.84] But, yeah, those are mine.
[2304.84 --> 2310.58] I actually talked to Zenor Rocha about some backstory on Dracula, which is pretty interesting.
[2311.54 --> 2312.08] Oh, cool.
[2312.34 --> 2312.60] Yeah.
[2312.66 --> 2319.66] On episode 248 of the Change Log, we talked to him about sort of like his open source lessons learned.
[2319.88 --> 2319.96] Right.
[2319.96 --> 2326.70] Like, his first introduction to open source was this jQuery boilerplate project.
[2326.84 --> 2328.06] And so this is back in the day.
[2328.64 --> 2337.82] And the very first, I guess, pull request was one that deleted all of his code and said start again because it was crap, basically.
[2338.22 --> 2340.88] So it was a horrible introduction to open source, basically.
[2340.88 --> 2340.96] Exactly.
[2341.84 --> 2343.04] We talked through that.
[2343.12 --> 2353.12] And then finally we got to this scenario where he was talking about just how he had, you know, his passion for making an editor look good.
[2353.44 --> 2357.92] And he come up with this theme, Dracula, and how it's just blown up since then.
[2358.02 --> 2362.76] Like, he started off with one and now it's been, you know, transplanted to everything, basically.
[2362.86 --> 2363.04] Yeah.
[2363.04 --> 2363.64] Vim, anything.
[2364.28 --> 2364.46] Yeah.
[2364.52 --> 2370.02] If you go to the Dracula site, it tells you all of the different places you can get it.
[2370.40 --> 2370.80] Yeah.
[2371.54 --> 2374.50] Dracula theme.com is the URL.
[2374.84 --> 2379.88] So if you're tracking that on a listener, if you're in the Slack, boom, there it is.
[2380.60 --> 2382.10] That's a pretty interesting project.
[2382.20 --> 2388.40] And it's funny that you did say official because there are many, many imitators, not often duplicators.
[2388.78 --> 2400.40] I also recently switched my font for programming to operator mono, which is not cheap, but it's beautiful.
[2400.40 --> 2402.14] And it's really easy on the eyes.
[2403.10 --> 2412.30] Back to the, I guess, somewhat of a surprise for developers on Windows to have an easy time.
[2412.54 --> 2415.18] Wasn't there a time, though, where it was harder for them?
[2415.18 --> 2418.80] I know maybe in the Ruby space, at least there was.
[2418.80 --> 2423.96] And this is like late 2008, 2009 timeframe, 2006.
[2424.18 --> 2426.46] It was like not easy to get set up.
[2426.46 --> 2431.76] It really depends on the language that you write and what you needed to do.
[2431.76 --> 2435.36] Because I've always had a Mac and a PC.
[2435.72 --> 2438.24] And I've always programmed on both of them.
[2438.44 --> 2438.74] Easily.
[2439.04 --> 2439.44] No problem.
[2439.44 --> 2439.68] Yeah.
[2440.00 --> 2440.48] Easily.
[2440.58 --> 2441.12] No problem.
[2441.12 --> 2445.90] I mean, maybe the stuff on my PC wasn't as attractive looking.
[2446.12 --> 2452.52] And it was a little bit harder to keep .files equal across operating systems.
[2452.86 --> 2456.80] But in the past few years, I haven't felt that way at all.
[2457.02 --> 2462.22] I mean, also, I mean, I have the access to people that work on VS Code.
[2462.52 --> 2469.10] So if I can't figure something out or if I want it to look better, I can message them and be like, help, please.
[2469.10 --> 2469.30] Please.
[2470.30 --> 2474.62] What do you think's changed for Windows, the platform?
[2475.24 --> 2478.78] I think it's 100% Microsoft being more involved with open source.
[2479.02 --> 2480.80] VS Code is completely open source.
[2481.00 --> 2481.88] It's written in TypeScript.
[2482.30 --> 2486.38] So it's really easy for people to make custom stuff for it.
[2486.78 --> 2487.44] That's my opinion.
[2487.58 --> 2488.94] Michael might have a better one.
[2489.02 --> 2489.72] What do you think, Michael?
[2490.64 --> 2497.70] I think that there's a larger transformation at Microsoft where they're moving from a platform company to a product company again.
[2497.70 --> 2500.20] So early Microsoft made products.
[2500.36 --> 2501.80] They made languages for other people's computers.
[2502.08 --> 2505.54] They made spreadsheets and Word applications.
[2505.92 --> 2509.30] And then at some point, they gained a monopoly over the operating system.
[2509.40 --> 2515.14] And they started to just kind of get lazy with product and strong arm everybody into just being on their platform.
[2515.14 --> 2521.18] And now that they've lost those monopolies in platform, they've turned everything around.
[2521.26 --> 2525.58] And Santi's really turned it all around to be a product company.
[2526.04 --> 2528.98] And now to be a product company, you have to make things that people love.
[2530.02 --> 2534.76] And I'm continually surprised by the things that I love from Microsoft.
[2534.76 --> 2537.56] I use Outlook on iOS right now.
[2537.70 --> 2539.38] It's great, actually.
[2539.60 --> 2539.82] Really?
[2539.92 --> 2541.76] It's a really good mobile email.
[2541.84 --> 2542.64] Yeah, it's crazy.
[2543.22 --> 2547.14] The fact that I'm using a Visual Studio editor still blows my mind.
[2547.40 --> 2554.10] If you told 1999 Michael that that would happen and that they wouldn't be using Vim, he'd punch you in the face.
[2555.88 --> 2556.96] I'm so violent.
[2556.96 --> 2560.52] Oh, 1999 Michael had no scruples.
[2561.42 --> 2563.24] So, anyway.
[2564.44 --> 2565.18] That's funny.
[2565.34 --> 2566.00] Yeah, yeah.
[2566.08 --> 2571.74] I kind of feel the same way because my transition to Mac came from Windows, obviously, which would make sense.
[2571.94 --> 2575.18] And it was from a place where I just couldn't afford.
[2575.72 --> 2579.06] And even today, I still can't afford the Mac machines.
[2579.18 --> 2580.58] They're still crazy expensive.
[2581.46 --> 2583.54] And so it comes from, one, an economic standpoint.
[2584.08 --> 2586.12] Surface Pros are not cheap.
[2586.12 --> 2588.12] I haven't compared the prices.
[2588.80 --> 2590.34] They're really nice hardware, though, too.
[2590.48 --> 2592.08] I mean, that's really surprising.
[2592.20 --> 2595.56] I haven't seen Microsoft make hardware that good, like, basically ever.
[2596.96 --> 2601.60] It's funny because I have heard complaints about the Surface Pros, but all of the complaints have been in software.
[2601.94 --> 2604.42] Or they've been, like, operating system things that people don't like about Windows.
[2604.70 --> 2607.58] I haven't heard anyone, not a single person, complain about the hardware.
[2608.34 --> 2613.12] Well, that's the thing, though, is that I think Microsoft has sort of, like, kept this bad name or this bruise.
[2613.12 --> 2619.16] They got punched in the face as the 1999 Michael would have done.
[2619.38 --> 2622.32] Punched Microsoft in the face because it just wasn't adding up.
[2622.82 --> 2627.50] And they were walking around with a fake black eye or something like that because it's not really there anymore.
[2627.66 --> 2629.12] It's sort of done.
[2629.12 --> 2630.94] I bought my mic just now, by the way.
[2631.52 --> 2632.28] That was a lot of rumble.
[2634.22 --> 2635.24] It's just not there anymore.
[2635.34 --> 2643.26] So, like, they've changed, but everyone keeps the previous opinion about them, even though it may not be warranted.