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He clearly works for MS and probably on the team that works on C#, which is why I find it odd that he touts Mono as a feature. If MS was serious about .NET ever
by jinushaun 14y ago
He clearly works for MS and probably on the team that works on C#, which is why I find it odd that he touts Mono as a feature. If MS was serious about .NET everywhere, they'd sponsor Mono/Xamarin, or offer native .NET support for OSX and Linux instead of using the Mono community's hard work to toot their own horn.
C# is a great language and has evolved beautifully, but many people will still continue to avoid it because it's owned by MS and stuck on Windows (without the help of Mono). The next Google, Facebook or Twitter won't be written with C#.
- teh_klev 14y agoHe isn't MSFT staff, read his "About the Author" page, he works for a Swedish company. Also he's a MS MVP, you can't be a Microsoft MVP and work for Microsoft at the same time.
- jinushaun 14y agoYou're right. His use of "we" had me confused.
- jsmeaton 14y agoNothing about that article suggested he works for MS and the style of writing alone is enough to convince me he doesn't. Does Sun/Oracle sponsor all the different implementations of Java? Does the Python Foundation sponsor the various implementations of Python? I'm guessing the work Microsoft are currently doing with Roslyn (compiler as a service) will benefit the various implementations also. The C# spec is open and standardised, and if a particular group wants to pick it up and implement it, I find it a very weak argument to suggest that any company should throw money behind it.
- jinushaun 14y agoBut Java and Python are cross platform out of the box.