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Excellent. Hopefully developers moves over to .Net Core en masse now, and I won't have to wait long for all my third party projects to switch over.
I'm enjoying reaping the rewards of all the dotnet core work in my F# projects. One critique: Why break semver? https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md#w... Like I get that it feels like a big change (and it is), but you've gone and confused a huge population of library writers and users with the major version bump. https://github.com/search?q=netstandard2.0&type=Issues&utf8=... How many of those a…
do you still need to install mono in addition to core to get autocomplete on vscode ?
Beside C#, what other languages are considered to have first class support I know VB .Net might be implicit here, but I am not so sure as I dont hear much about it anymore and I think it is no longer adding new features And I know that there is some F# support So aside from those two (VB .Net and F#) ... any other languages have serious support for .net core?
i tried f# and it really feels like a second classe citizen ( at least on macos). Very few educational resources. You still need to spend a lot of time on c sharp to learn the frameworks, and then maybe move to f#.
Beside C#, what other languages are considered to have first class support I know VB .Net might be implicit here, but I am not so sure as I dont hear much about it anymore and I think it is no longer adding new features And I know that there is some F# support So aside from those two (VB .Net and F#) ... any other languages have serious support for .net core?
Ten years ago when I was starting out, Microsoft wasn't even a consideration when looking at toolsets, it was stodgy, expensive, and didn't run on a MacBook. Now, not only have they completely redesigned, and sold me on their development toolsets, but they've implemented an interesting alternative to AWS, and they've shifted my go-to machine from a Mac to a Windows machine. The turnaround is pretty remarkable (obviously they have remarkable resources, but still). I sort of want Michael Lewis, or someone, to write a book about the last decade at Microsoft.
If not, what toolkit would be recommended these days for this purpose?
Beside C#, what other languages are considered to have first class support I know VB .Net might be implicit here, but I am not so sure as I dont hear much about it anymore and I think it is no longer adding new features And I know that there is some F# support So aside from those two (VB .Net and F#) ... any other languages have serious support for .net core?
I think C# is the one and only language to consider if you're doing anything serious in .NET. While F# is academically interesting and maybe OK for some personal or solo projects, you'll struggle to find developers for anything of substantial size.
It's hard to tell how much of this emotional reaction is due to current reality, how much is leftover from old experiences that are no longer relevant, how much is just language preference (not platform quality), etc.
I could just try them all, but my experience years ago was that the cross-platform tech, when it worked, made things easy at first, but that final 5% of your code was always trying to find hacks to do what no one had ever tried before--very time consuming and risky (no guarantee of success). So "trying them all" won't really give me a true sense of where the technologies are in reality.
There's no rush in my case, but I do wish I had a more realistic sense of what the various desktop dev technologies were like these days in case I ever go back to it.
Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, JRuby : Most importantly, every one of them is in production use - not just as toy/experimental languages. And we havent even opened the Pandora's box that is Java 9+Truffle.
There's a lot of broscience that .NET is superior to the JVM - is that on sheer performance only ?
Beside C#, what other languages are considered to have first class support I know VB .Net might be implicit here, but I am not so sure as I dont hear much about it anymore and I think it is no longer adding new features And I know that there is some F# support So aside from those two (VB .Net and F#) ... any other languages have serious support for .net core?
i tried f# and it really feels like a second classe citizen ( at least on macos). Very few educational resources. You still need to spend a lot of time on c sharp to learn the frameworks, and then maybe move to f#.
This results in the Microsoft F# team and the F# community contributors playing catch-up. Eventually F# will catch-up, but it is going to take time.