Where Is .Net Headed?
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Where Is .Net Headed?
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Re: Where Is .Net Headed?
#2They need to open source the CLR and rule the world
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#3They need to open source the CLR and rule the world
Why? It's already an ISO/ECMA standard, and there's an existing high quality open source implementation in Mono. Microsoft has open sourced several of their more recent frameworks and languages, including ASP.NET MVC, F#, and TypeScript, and released free-but-not-open-source tools like the express editions of Visual Studio. How would open sourcing the CLR help?
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#4I have moved everything that I host for myself or my clients to Azure. Low cost, rock solid reliability, incredible speed and easy to administer. CPU, memory and disk really are a commodity at this point.
I loved Amazon EC2 too but Azure was far cheaper for high use Windows VMs.
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#5I currently work at a fairly large MS client. No way we're going to abandon .Net right now or in the next few years.
We're currently in the process of getting ready for a migration to Sharepoint Server 2013 which will cement the company with .Net for at least the next two to three years. We still have several sites on the old 2007 platform with no hint of moving those over any time soon.
I'm wondering what you see as viable open source alternatives to the .Net platform.
Also, we have a handful of .Net developers and they've all said a majority of the work they've had in the last year did not involve MVC3 or MVC4 so I'm also wondering what the future of this platform will be.
Re: Where Is .Net Headed?
#6They should add Java as a CLR-supported language :P
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#7They should add Java as a CLR-supported language :P
You can always use IKVM for running Java under .NET!
I used it for adding the boilerpipe Java library to navigate HackerNews by voice! Details at: http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extrac...
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#8They should add Java as a CLR-supported language :P
They did that once before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp
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#9I currently work at a fairly large MS client. No way we're going to abandon .Net right now or in the next few years. We're currently in the process of getting ready for a migration to Sharepoint Server 2013 which will cement the company with .Net for at least the next two to three years. We still have several sites on the old 2007 platform with no hint of moving those over any time soon. I'm wondering what you see as…
>I'm wondering what you see as viable open source alternatives to the .Net platform.
Mono? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
Or going in a different direction with similar goals, Qt.
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#10Great, another .NET is dying post voted up on HN. Didn't we have one of those just this morning?
Meanwhile, in the real world, Microsoft posted these earnings:
"Server & Tools business reported $5.04 billion of revenue, up 11% from last year"
Inspite of competing products like Linux, Apache, Eclipse, Ruby, Java being given away for free, people are willing to pay for Windows Server, Visual Studio and IIS.
Does anyone have real data related to ".NET is dying" other than idle conjecture, short sighted "frog in the well" anectodes which sound like they're written and voted up by people sipping on a latte on a Macbook in a Starbucks in Silicon Valley?
Like the number of jobs posted? They seem to increasing every day.
Sigh, some people here just love these '.NET is dying' posts, perhaps some with a vested interest to scare startups from using it.
Again, any hard data will be appreciated that shows .NET is dying instead of the same paragraph upon paragraph of opinion and no links, references or data, we have enough HN comments of that already.