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Are .NET programmers going extinct?

5 points by Garbage 15y ago

wccrawford 15y ago
Wow, the media is really biting on that RUMOR, eh? Jeez.
MatthewPhillips 15y ago
I find it hard to believe just because C# and F# are the only first-class languages on Windows. Iron Ruby is pretty good now, but that took years to get it close to Ruby MRI. The same can be said for other languages. Newer run-times like node.js are very hard to get set up in Windows (even if you use cygwin). Pretty much any new trendy language goes to Linux first (unless Microsoft is the creator). As long a Windows has market share it will have programmers, and most of those programmers are going to use .NET.
jinushaun 15y ago
No. The sky is not falling. There's more to .NET programming than just desktop apps. 1. Those HTML5 + JS apps will talk to web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server. 2. Traditional apps still work in Win8
- petervandijck 15y ago
  "web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server" - cough, why?
  - MatthewPhillips 15y ago
    Why not?
  - michaelcampbell 15y ago
    Wow. As a developer with a fairly long history of not liking MS technology, I'd have to say that .NET WebServices and SQL Server are 2 things that I WISH I could use. Of all Microsoft stuff, those 2 things are fairly excellent.
  - jinushaun 15y ago
    If your livelihood depended on .NET before Win8, there's a good chance you'll want to stick with .NET on the web services side after Win8. I highly doubt MS is telling everyone to switch to Ruby or NodejS on the back end. .NET will still live on.
mattdeboard 15y ago
Eyeroll-worthy headlines like these are good for one thing, at least: I know not to even bother clicking through to read the article.
JonoW 15y ago
Microsoft showed off a new option for creating UIs and now everyone is running around saying the whole .NET eco-system is going down the can. If you believe that you are a freaking idiot!
Symbol 15y ago
I like the idea that WFC is the "hardcore" Windows programmer language. Perhaps the author's brain would explode if I showed him the 80-line C boilerplate for setting up a simple, single-window app using the Win32 API (where the function signatures were decorated with the PASCAL #define). Ah memories.
vyrotek 15y ago
What a bunch of garbage.
billpg 15y ago
For any headline using the form of a question, the answer to that question is usually, "no".

5 points by Garbage 15y ago

Wow, the media is really biting on that RUMOR, eh? Jeez.

I find it hard to believe just because C# and F# are the only first-class languages on Windows. Iron Ruby is pretty good now, but that took years to get it close to Ruby MRI. The same can be said for other languages. Newer run-times like node.js are very hard to get set up in Windows (even if you use cygwin). Pretty much any new trendy language goes to Linux first (unless Microsoft is the creator). As long a Windows has market share it will have programmers, and most of those programmers are going to use .NET.

jinushaun 15y ago

No. The sky is not falling. There's more to .NET programming than just desktop apps. 1. Those HTML5 + JS apps will talk to web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server. 2. Traditional apps still work in Win8

petervandijck 15y ago
"web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server" - cough, why?
- MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  Why not?
- michaelcampbell 15y ago
  Wow. As a developer with a fairly long history of not liking MS technology, I'd have to say that .NET WebServices and SQL Server are 2 things that I WISH I could use. Of all Microsoft stuff, those 2 things are fairly excellent.
- jinushaun 15y ago
  If your livelihood depended on .NET before Win8, there's a good chance you'll want to stick with .NET on the web services side after Win8. I highly doubt MS is telling everyone to switch to Ruby or NodejS on the back end. .NET will still live on.

mattdeboard 15y ago

Eyeroll-worthy headlines like these are good for one thing, at least: I know not to even bother clicking through to read the article.

JonoW 15y ago

Microsoft showed off a new option for creating UIs and now everyone is running around saying the whole .NET eco-system is going down the can. If you believe that you are a freaking idiot!

Symbol 15y ago

I like the idea that WFC is the "hardcore" Windows programmer language. Perhaps the author's brain would explode if I showed him the 80-line C boilerplate for setting up a simple, single-window app using the Win32 API (where the function signatures were decorated with the PASCAL #define). Ah memories.

vyrotek 15y ago

What a bunch of garbage.

billpg 15y ago

For any headline using the form of a question, the answer to that question is usually, "no".