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I think ALT.NET was one of the drivers for this change within Microsoft. Without it or something else like it, we may see the old MS patterns creep back slowly
by blakeholl 10y ago
I think ALT.NET was one of the drivers for this change within Microsoft. Without it or something else like it, we may see the old MS patterns creep back slowly. I think it is good to have alternatives to a lot of the prescriptive MS frameworks and "best practices" - and I say this as a career MS, .NET developer.
- bartread 10y agoI'm not so sure. The leadership at Microsoft nowadays is quite different compared with back then. I do think the need for (something like) ALT.NET perhaps isn't there in the way it was back in 2007-09 because the software development, and particularly the web development, landscape has changed so much over the past 10 years.
- dylanbeattie 10y agoOne of the reasons we're keen to do this - or at least to try it! - is that both the industry and Microsoft have changed enormously in the last ten years. There's a much richer range of platforms available, and there's all sorts of new protocols and patterns we can use to integrate those platforms - and with stuff like containerization and serverless cloud functions, there's all kinds of interesting ways to use .NET and .NET Core as part of a larger heterogenous application stack. It will also be interesting - in the widest possible sense of the word - to see how the interactions between altnet and 2017-era Microsoft play out as compared to the 2007-era Microsoft. As the saying goes, watch this space :)