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You keep making these false statements. .NET is open source. You're not dependent on Microsoft at all if you don't want to be. If Microsoft closes shop tomor
by GiorgioG 5y ago
You keep making these false statements.
.NET is open source. You're not dependent on Microsoft at all if you don't want to be. If Microsoft closes shop tomorrow, .NET will live on.
You've got a minimal amount of .NET experience (based on your own assertion 3 months ago) and you're spouting incorrect/false information. You were forced to use .NET, maybe that's why you're so unhappy with it. I've used C#/Java/Go/Python/Typescript/JS in my professional life and I've never felt more productive than when I'm building software with C#/.NET. Is it perfect? Not by a longshot. If I had my way I'd be using F#, but alas it's not popular/well-promoted (that I blame squarely on MS.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?next=29303588&id=bayesian_horse#29225976 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?next=29303588&id=bayesi...
- bayesian_horse 5y agoIf you think .NET will continue without Microsoft, you are delusional. It won't "die" as in the codebase disappearing, and there would even be the occasional patch, but the project and platform as such would essentially be dead in the water. You are also beholden to the direction Microsoft wants to take the project/platform. There is nothing the other open source contributors, such as there are, can do about it. Fork? Maybe, but there's not THAT much activity around it anyway. Again, all of this is a risk or "situation" one may be happy to take. Just be aware of it. At the end, .NET is more code, harder to learn, harder to recruit for, easier to over-complicate, and the ecosystem of libraries is thinner than with Django, Python and Javascript.