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I don't see why Microsoft would create something that would work on other systems....they want people to use Windows.
by mpg33 13y ago
I don't see why Microsoft would create something that would work on other systems....they want people to use Windows.
- acqq 13y agoAnd they even let their the conflicts of interests influence the development of their programming languages. C# is the best example. There are more reasons why C# has poorer performance and less libraries outside of Windows but most can be tracked to the interest in Microsoft to have something tightly enough controlled and bound to Windows.
- yareally 13y agoOf course they want people to use their OS (just like Apple wants people to use theirs), but that does not mean they always lock the language into the OS. They created TypeScript, licensed it under Apache 2.0 and made the installer for it an npm package in Node[1]. [1] npm install -g typescript and it's installed and ready to go wherever you are using Node.js