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.Net is part of the FOSS ecosystem.

You don't want them to experiment with new tools? The main difference now is that the experiment is public.

Half of the .Net ecosystem doesn't work with AOT either.

A NullPointerException is not a security vulnerability. A race condition might, but even then, I'm not sure how likely that is to result in a vulnerability in a garbage collected l…

UTF-8 string literals will be part of C# 11/.Net 7, which could help. But they're still more awkward to use than the UTF-16 string.

Many of the benchmarks are using BenchmarkDotNet, so consider reporting this to them: https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet/ .

Many developers distrust closed source developer tools, whether they are free or not.

There is VS Code, which is not a version of VS, is free, and has this debugger. There is also VS Community, which is a free version of VS, has this debugger, but has fairly strict …

Note that Mono, the framework, is indeed dying. But Mono, the runtime, is now part of .Net and it's an alternative to CoreCLR, used for things like Xamarin/MAUI and Blazor. Though …

For null, there are nullable reference types now. Exceptions are here to stay though. I don't see how you could retrofit something like Rust's Result on top of .Net. (Also, .Net ha…

Yes, you can debug .Net using LLDB if you use the open-source SOS extension: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/sos... .

Nobody does anymore, so I don't see how that counts as a valid criticism of current .Net.

How do you differentiate between "actually abandoned and probably dangerous" and "actively maintained, but updated only very rarely, because there's nothing left to do"?

> While writing it I needed something that would be 'just data' without any additional 'functionality' attached to it, so I naturally reached for `struct`, given that it exists in …

I think there's at least one way in which F# is a second-class citizen: documentation. The documentation for anything in .Net will contain code in C#, but code in F# is quite rare.…

I think there is zero chance of that happening. MS recently made one tiny decision that was unfriendly to open source, it caused a huge outcry and a reversal within 48 hours on a w…

I guess they could do that, but what makes you think they actually will?

> ASP.NET Is the web framework that comes with .NET Not quite. ASP.NET is the web framework that comes with .NET Framework. ASP.NET Core is the web framework that comes with .NET C…

Keep in mind that it's just one option. If you want, you can still deploy your app separately from the .Net runtime. Also, to keep the size at least somewhat in check, unused parts…

I believe it's at least partially true, because new cars are designed to be damaged in crashes, to better protect the people inside them.

> But you can't put two different kinds of things on the same belt lane without creating some serious trouble. Sure you can, it's called a "sushi belt" and with some simple combina…

> So one of the prime dreams of having .net AOT of having an easy way to create a COMPACT self contained native exectuable dies when it hits real code. They are working on improvin…

Or maybe there isn't a single "the whole point" and it can be useful for different reasons to different people?

Starting with .Net 5, there will be one major release exactly once a year, and one LTS release exactly once every two years. (see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-…