It is a total hassle to keep up with Googlers changing everything constantly. It's not just GCP it's every platform they control. Try keeping a website on the right side of Chrome policies, a G Suite app up, a Chrome extension running.

Thousands of engineers chasing promotions by dropping support for live code. If it was their code they wouldn't do it. The org is broken. If you want to see what mature software support looks like, check out Microsoft. Win32 binaries I wrote in college still run on Win 10. Google looks unimpressive by comparison. But they all got promoted!

I was exposed to this firsthand yesterday when I cloned the [ShareX](https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX) project to take a look at a problem I was encountering.

Literally all I had to do was install Visual Studio Community, click the “Open in Visual Studio” button on Github, wait a few minutes to install the C# runtime that Visual Studio automatically prompted me to install, and click “Run”.

5 minutes was all it took to be writing code for that project and it makes me want to get into the .Net ecosystem more.