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I’ve always liked C#. But official support outside Windows is only very recent. And .NET is still very much Microsoft’s baby. Unlike an independent language

I’ve always liked C#. But official support outside Windows is only very recent. And .NET is still very much Microsoft’s baby. Unlike an independent language like C or JS or Rust, MS could pull the rug out at any time. Yes, Mono. But Mono is an unofficial port of a moving target. They have no control over the direction of .NET.

benaadams 8y ago
.NET Foundation's baby now https://dotnetfoundation.org/ https://dotnetfoundation.org/ With open membership https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-foundation-open-membership https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-... and election of its board https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-join-part-3-become-a-board-member https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-...
- mr_toad 8y ago
  The board hasn’t even been elected yet! Maybe MS will in future cede all control over the language. Maybe in future 99% of code contributions won’t come from Microsoft employees. But even then it would take years for the language to become more widely adopted outside Windows.
mandeepj 8y ago
> MS could pull the rug out at any time. What you mean? C# is open source. And, here is the location - https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang
kevingadd 8y ago
A considerable portion of Mono's original developers & current maintainers are on Microsoft's payroll and have been since the acquisition of Xamarin years ago. Because large portions of .NET and C# stewardship moved over to the .NET foundation, community members have a formal role in the development of both as well. So in practice, 'pulling the rug out from under' Mono (or .NET Core) users would be pulling the rug out from under paying customers.
- VRay 8y ago
  Well, surely Microsoft wouldn't randomly pull the rug out from under a small subset of its own customers! Unrelated, anyone know how I can get my Windows 10 Mobile phone to sync Zune songs to my Windows Media Center? My Xbox360 stopped working smoothly after the last few forced updates

benaadams 8y ago

.NET Foundation's baby now https://dotnetfoundation.org/ https://dotnetfoundation.org/ With open membership https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-foundation-open-membership https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-... and election of its board https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-join-part-3-become-a-board-member https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-...

mr_toad 8y ago
The board hasn’t even been elected yet! Maybe MS will in future cede all control over the language. Maybe in future 99% of code contributions won’t come from Microsoft employees. But even then it would take years for the language to become more widely adopted outside Windows.

mandeepj 8y ago

> MS could pull the rug out at any time. What you mean? C# is open source. And, here is the location - https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang

kevingadd 8y ago

A considerable portion of Mono's original developers & current maintainers are on Microsoft's payroll and have been since the acquisition of Xamarin years ago. Because large portions of .NET and C# stewardship moved over to the .NET foundation, community members have a formal role in the development of both as well. So in practice, 'pulling the rug out from under' Mono (or .NET Core) users would be pulling the rug out from under paying customers.

VRay 8y ago
Well, surely Microsoft wouldn't randomly pull the rug out from under a small subset of its own customers! Unrelated, anyone know how I can get my Windows 10 Mobile phone to sync Zune songs to my Windows Media Center? My Xbox360 stopped working smoothly after the last few forced updates