Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

Post by lagadu » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #59

mikestew wrote: post #47

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The implication is "I have no interest in this because I'm happy with what I have". Okay, that's fine, please enjoy your Java and build wonderful things. Oh, BTW, why are you typing into a reply box on a thread you have no interest in? And the implication there is because your tool is a poopy head and I wanted to subtly point that out by expressing my lack of interest. So, yeah, go away because that's not contributin…

> So, yeah, go away because that's not contributing to the conversation. Well, maybe there’s another implication. Google switching to C# would lead to them neglecting and deprecating the Java ecosystem on Android. That’s gonna be real ugly for app devs, ending up having to rewrite everything. So, maybe, there is a real contribution in the comment, which you just haven’t seen yet?

Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

geodel wrote: post #48

_cmmn wrote: post #2

Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.

Google have not made their own languages Dart/Go official to Android. Why would they make languages other than Java a priority now?

Post by serge2k » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 5:28 PM UTC

geodel wrote: post #77

patates wrote: post #69

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Dart doesn't have the adoption yet and has a different plan when it comes to mobile ( https://github.com/flutter/flutter ). I love Go, but it's not really a suitable language to do UI, or anything that deals with data models. C#, however, is a perfect replacement for Java, most of the times. I would say "it's simply superior in every imaginable metric other than cross-platform implementations of the compiler/VM" but…

Java's value is not some inherent superiority of language for mobile development, it is about throwing (100s of) millions of dollars and 100s of engineers to make it work. And I think it remains true for C# also. Unless someone sinks 100s of millions on C# too it seems non-starter to me. By the way Microsoft has already tried mobile ecosystem with .net/C# that did not work out very well.

Post by krzat » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 5:33 PM UTC

blauditore wrote: post #44

mattmanser wrote: post #35

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What magic are you talking about? Various .Net frameworks have silly amounts of magic, but C# itself?

When I started going into C# from Java a bit, there were two things slightly annoying me: - Class extensions: I saw code examples online that just wouldn't work for me because the compiler told me a certain method of a built-in class wouldn't exist. After I while I found out that the author of that snippet had used class extensions and not bothered to mention. - The var keyword: While this is sometimes nice for quick…

Post by dizzy3gg » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

geodel wrote: post #72

jahnu wrote: post #49

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* C# is much more mature * It has an enormous user base * It's not owned by Oracle Not saying they will but those are real possible reasons for Google to do this.

One possible way out will be something like Swift port to Android made by an open source contributor to Swift. Someone with deep knowledge of C# can take a stab at C# to Android. I'd think Google have very few C# people internally.