Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

Post by ionforce » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 11:17 PM UTC

pron wrote: post #77

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #53

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You would think something like OCaml would fill in that niche with its wider availability.

There's a very cool implementation of (multi-threaded!) OCaml for the JVM: http://www.ocamljava.org/

Post by waterlesscloud » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 11:23 PM UTC

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Silverlight is still supported by Microsoft - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=12905

I have the largest cable provider in the country and when I click "watch TV on my laptop" it launches Silverlight. (It sucks, by the way). But people pretending the thing isn't used and isn't supported are really grasping at straws here. If you're going to bring a plastic knife to a watergun fight, at least point it in the right direction... You know who didn't (and does not) support Silverlight? Developers! We moved…

Post by return0 » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 11:24 PM UTC

istvan__ wrote: post #22

Yes! Finally we can use .NET on on Linux a supported official way.

Post by justthistime_ » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 11:26 PM UTC

nutate wrote: post #28

F# is a real breath of fresh air in comparison to something like Scala. It's direct ML heritage really shows, also just diving in with an IDE (like Xamarin, or I suppose Visual Studio) is super easy. I see it as the future of pop-functional programming. For example look at the way it handles type inference w/ JSON parsing. Compare that to what you have to do to parse JSON in Scala. It's subtle, but a major usability…

  case class Fruit(name: String, variants: Set[String])

  val fruitJson =
    Json.parse(
        """{
             "name": "apple",
             "variants": ["cox", "braeburn"]
           }""")

  val fruit = fruitJson.as[Fruit]

Post by njloof » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

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This is the thing with Microsoft is this is never in doubt. It is Google who ends of life's things and stops support. Microsoft still has supports things in Windows 8.1 that were BUGS in MS-DOS in order to allow programs from that era to run. Microsoft will support .NetCore for at least 20 years. Without doubt.

They may still support it, but it can be a technological dead-end. Just like Silverlight.