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So how is what Microsoft is doing with .NET any different than what Google is doing with Go and Oracle with Java? Is this people unfairly hating on Microsoft f
by booleandilemma 5y ago
So how is what Microsoft is doing with .NET any different than what Google is doing with Go and Oracle with Java?
Is this people unfairly hating on Microsoft for being Microsoft?
Is .NET any less open source than Go or Java (or any other technology with corporate backing)?
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- dragonwriter 5y ago> So how is what Microsoft is doing with .NET any different than what Google is doing with Go and Oracle with Java Who said it was? > Is this people unfairly hating on Microsoft for being Microsoft? I don't think so, and Oracle gets pounded on for everything, including what they do with Java, too. Google may be better with Go, or maybe people are cutting them undeserved slack. Not really relevant to the discussion of Microsoft and .NET, though, just whataboutism as a distraction. > Is .NET any less open source than Go or Java “open source” is not the issue; community process is the issue. That .NET is available under an open source licensing model is not a subject of any dispute.
- booleandilemma 5y agoHey, thanks for your answers. I wasn’t trying to engage in whataboutism, I was trying to find out, as a developer who wants to learn a truly community-driven language/technology without any corporate overlords, what my options are. I’ve looked into Go, but a part of me feels like I’m trading one corporation for another. The languages I think of as strongly community-driven: python, ruby, and javascript, are all dynamically typed, and I’m trying to stay with statically typed languages.
- mtlynch 5y agoZig seems to fit your criteria: https://ziglang.org/ https://ziglang.org/
- kristoff_it 5y agoWe definitely are both statically typed and aggressively independent :^)
- whoisthemachine 5y agoDoes Rust not fit your criteria?