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Where I'm located, .NET has died years ago. Just Java, Go and C++ now. I guess these things are regional. Unity is increasing C# popularity, though. So maybe .

Where I'm located, .NET has died years ago. Just Java, Go and C++ now. I guess these things are regional. Unity is increasing C# popularity, though. So maybe .NET is not going away, at least yet.

apta 8y ago
Lots of work is being done on .NET, not just Unity. Also, it's the second most popular server side web language: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...
raxxorrax 8y ago
Same here... .net core is around but the APIs and runtimes MS created aren't really loved by anyone. With WPF seemingly abandoned and UWP being ... itself, there isn't much enthusiasm left. A little sad, since I believe C# to be superior to JAVA, but I haven't used it for anything for about two years now. It maybe won't go away, but I think it lost a lot of relevance.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  WPF is one of the corner stones of .NET Core 3.0, and one of the UI frameworks mostly used in life sciences device management UIs. UWP isn't going anywhere, as much as haters would like to.
  - raxxorrax 8y ago
    Maybe not. But users might go somewhere else. I have yet to meet anyone in real life that developed anything with UWP because it allegedly (has been a while) still lacks very basic features relating to UI at least (i know it is not restricted to that). I have nothing against WPF, although I am not a fan of XAML. But I think MS isn't really focusing on it. We will see. I used WPF in medical applications like you said, but that was around 4-5 years ago. Currently I believe UWP will never significantly take off on the desktop outside of Microsoft.
    - pjmlp 8y ago
      Yeah, I guess Adobe, startups creating HoloLens content, might be told otherwise then.
snaky 8y ago
> There is an old study about 4.5 million .NET developers in 2004. Today, if I have to guess, there are at least 7-8 million .NET developers in the world. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/forums/how-many-c-sharp-developers-in-the-world https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/forums/how-many-c-sharp-develo... (2014)

Where I'm located, .NET has died years ago. Just Java, Go and C++ now. I guess these things are regional. Unity is increasing C# popularity, though. So maybe .NET is not going away, at least yet.

apta 8y ago

Lots of work is being done on .NET, not just Unity. Also, it's the second most popular server side web language: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...

raxxorrax 8y ago

Same here... .net core is around but the APIs and runtimes MS created aren't really loved by anyone. With WPF seemingly abandoned and UWP being ... itself, there isn't much enthusiasm left. A little sad, since I believe C# to be superior to JAVA, but I haven't used it for anything for about two years now. It maybe won't go away, but I think it lost a lot of relevance.

pjmlp 8y ago
WPF is one of the corner stones of .NET Core 3.0, and one of the UI frameworks mostly used in life sciences device management UIs. UWP isn't going anywhere, as much as haters would like to.
- raxxorrax 8y ago
  Maybe not. But users might go somewhere else. I have yet to meet anyone in real life that developed anything with UWP because it allegedly (has been a while) still lacks very basic features relating to UI at least (i know it is not restricted to that). I have nothing against WPF, although I am not a fan of XAML. But I think MS isn't really focusing on it. We will see. I used WPF in medical applications like you said, but that was around 4-5 years ago. Currently I believe UWP will never significantly take off on the desktop outside of Microsoft.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    Yeah, I guess Adobe, startups creating HoloLens content, might be told otherwise then.

snaky 8y ago

> There is an old study about 4.5 million .NET developers in 2004. Today, if I have to guess, there are at least 7-8 million .NET developers in the world. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/forums/how-many-c-sharp-developers-in-the-world https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/forums/how-many-c-sharp-develo... (2014)