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Looks like MS is moving .NET towards smaller, but more frequent updates, similar to a lot of languages as of late. I honestly didn't even know 7 came out, just

by jjice 4y ago

Looks like MS is moving .NET towards smaller, but more frequent updates, similar to a lot of languages as of late. I honestly didn't even know 7 came out, just that AOT was in the works. C# was always a pleasure to work in. VB.NET is fine, but I'd rather write C# any day. I'd love to get some realistic status on .NET usage. I've have to imagine it's really solid, but I'd be interested in how the usage outside of Windows servers and shops with heavy Windows-reliance is like. > Shall we play a game? How about Simon? Exactly the kind of reference I like to see in a blog post too :)

SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
I wouldn't say that MS "is moving" the .NET release cadence "towards", it has been quite regular for the last few years already: There is a major version every November, since 2020. And every second one is Long Term Support (.NET 6 is LTS, and .NET 8 will be) But yes, this is a "modern" cadence of small, frequent releases, and it is expected to continue like that. The table of releases with dates is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET > I'd be interested in how the usage outside of Windows servers If you're doing microservices, web services, queue processing, etc in a .NET version >= 5.0, then hosting on containers or Linux servers is common, even the norm. If you doing AWS Lambdas or Azure functions then the host OS is "IDK, not important, probably a linux"
- jjice 4y ago
  > I wouldn't say that MS "is moving" the .NET release cadence "towards", it has been quite regular for the last few years already Welp, that shows my .NET ignorance - thanks for the info!