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>> given the weight of C++ and Java there. Python as well. >> how little Google seems to care about the language and ecosystem Let's compare with Microsoft.
by dtamhk 10y ago
>> given the weight of C++ and Java there.
Python as well.
>> how little Google seems to care about the language and ecosystem
Let's compare with Microsoft. The top four out of five users at StackOverFlow have top tags in C#, I guess Google have a long way to Go.
- Pxtl 10y agoAnd yet the os group at ms is famous for their naked derision of the .net Framework.
- dtamhk 10y agoHum .Net is their own dog food .. did you mean Android/iOS? :-D
- dtamhk 10y agoWhat I mean was that M$ have competing offer to Android/iOS but it is not getting the upper hand even within their own organization.
- pjmlp 10y agoBecause of political wars that lead the .NET team to base the Framework on the CLR instead of the COM+ Runtime that was being prototyped. Why do you think that WinRT is basically the return of .NET the Ext-VOS project origins, but with .NET metadata instead of COM type libraries? .NET Native is what Ext-VOS was going to be, if it wasn't for the decision to create the CLR instead.
- usmannk 10y agoPython isn't nearly at the level of C++ or Java there, at least not any more.
- rcarmo 10y agoErm. StackOverflow was built by folk who used C# heavily, and cargo-culting is amazingly prevalent on both the C# and Java "traditional IT" communities, so _of course_ StackOverflow is biased towards those runtimes...