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People may or may not remember, but most of this started with ALT.NET movement, with a number of influential people and developer supported or created a number
by tehlike 8y ago
People may or may not remember, but most of this started with ALT.NET movement, with a number of influential people and developer supported or created a number of projects.
Before ASP.NET MVC, there was Castle Monorail.
Before Entity framework or linq2sql, there was Nhibernate.
It was amazing times. It was clear Scott Guthrie started moving microsoft in that direction back in the day, after ALT.NET movement started proving success and showing an alternative to people.
- sjellis 8y agoI remember ALT.NET, and I would not retroactively declare a success. What it did was push into the open the fact that the Microsoft of the day could not effectively handle having rival technologies on their platform, open or closed source. Their strategy at the time was to try to provide a solution for every single product category, to the point of maintaining various no-cost but proprietary tools and libraries just to fill gaps (most of which are now abandoned).