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I'm guessing you haven't tried MS's latest desktop platform developer suite?

• xmonkee 13y ago
  Do you mean Visual Studio or their languages? If the former, that's a tool. They make good tools, no doubt, but closed tools aren't really conducive to open innovation. They've made good languages, but again I wouldn't want to get tied down to a closed platform.
  • unknownian 13y ago
    Microsoft has done a good amount of interesting R&D.
• BlackDeath3 13y ago
  Yeah, I don't really get that above post at all. Perhaps it's just because I haven't strayed too far into the web/mobile space (Dart, Android applications, etc.), but when I think of the "programming space", I think of Microsoft (VS, C#, XNA, .NET, etc.) much quicker than I do Google.
  • Mikeb85 13y ago
    Didn't Microsoft deprecate XNA? So now Monogame is taking over? When I think 'programming space' I think open-source - C, C++, Java, Mono, Javascript, Python, Ruby, R, Lisps, Rust, Dart, Go, Haskell, OCaml, etc... Google doesn't immediately come to mind because they just use and give back to the OSS space, not caring too much to lock developers in.
    • ygra 13y ago
      Tell that people who started projects in GWT ;-) (which by itself is quite horribile as it's Java, but not quite Java and you can't use most of the libs out there because the class library is very crippled)