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> To within a rounding error of zero, I don't think anyone outside Windows devs truly expects Microsoft to maintain .NET on other platforms, so it's not really
by neonsunset 1y ago
> To within a rounding error of zero, I don't think anyone outside Windows devs truly expects Microsoft to maintain .NET on other platforms, so it's not really an option in many (most?) fields.
This is provably wrong, unless you want to insist despite the facts because that's what your social bubble tells you to do.
The most popular deployment target for .NET is Linux: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry
Equating whatever else MS is up to with the way .NET evolves and is managed is no different to equating YouTube and Golang.
- Groxx 1y agoPeople use Microsoft open source stuff, definitely. It's fairly often decent or better. But Microsoft's most consistent legacy across its entire existence has been Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Any Linux-supporting project is directly opposed to their core business, aside from Azure - if it starts becoming a threat, they'll turn it into a way to force people onto their other money-makers.
- neonsunset 1y agoAnd so the broken record takes another turn...
- Groxx 1y agoWhen the broken record keeps predicting the future accurately, it's not claiming to be the next Nostradamus. History just repeats pretty consistently.
- neonsunset 1y agoBy this logic we should drop Golang immediately then because tomorrow Google will either kill it or they will add unremovable telemetry that uploads all of your code directly to AdSense.