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Anyone else get the feeling that .net is being groomed to be the "runtime" of the internet (I'll stop short of calling it "OS" as that would seem presumptuous :

Anyone else get the feeling that .net is being groomed to be the "runtime" of the internet (I'll stop short of calling it "OS" as that would seem presumptuous :-)? To the extent where you could run any .net supported language on any OS as well as your browser (C#/F#/VB/Managed C++/etc). Granted the browser version would need to be well sand-boxed but penetrating the Javascript market would be huge. I'm predicting Edge will eventually explore this path.

rottyguy 11y ago
btw- anyone know who the father of .net would be? wikipedia states that .net was created in the late 90's under the next generation windows services umbrella. 1999 is the date that is given when Anders started to assemble the C# team (again wikipedia). Timing seems roughly right but guessing .net preceeded his work on C#. tx
- mkr-hn 11y ago
  Possibly informative, if not a complete answer: http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/thechannel9team/anders-hejlsberg-what-brought-about-the-birth-of-the-clr http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/thechannel9team/anders-hejlsb...
lucid00 11y ago
I doubt Edge will do this only because of one feature I was surprised to see Microsoft add support for... ASM.js. ASM.js lets supporting browsers run optimized JavaScript code at near native speed and is backwards compatible with all browsers (just running the code slower). With ASM.js Microsoft could bring .NET to all browsers without even needing to update the browsers themselves (just running faster when in a browser that supports ASM.js). So far only Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox support it, I'm waiting for Google Chrome to jump on the bandwagon honestly as it's genius. Also if you want an idea of how powerful it is, it helped Mozilla run the Unreal 4 Engine in Firefox at 1080p in 60FPS without lag.

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Anyone else get the feeling that .net is being groomed to be the "runtime" of the internet (I'll stop short of calling it "OS" as that would seem presumptuous :

by rottyguy 11y ago

rottyguy 11y ago
btw- anyone know who the father of .net would be? wikipedia states that .net was created in the late 90's under the next generation windows services umbrella. 1999 is the date that is given when Anders started to assemble the C# team (again wikipedia). Timing seems roughly right but guessing .net preceeded his work on C#. tx
- mkr-hn 11y ago
  Possibly informative, if not a complete answer: http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/thechannel9team/anders-hejlsberg-what-brought-about-the-birth-of-the-clr http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/thechannel9team/anders-hejlsb...
lucid00 11y ago
I doubt Edge will do this only because of one feature I was surprised to see Microsoft add support for... ASM.js. ASM.js lets supporting browsers run optimized JavaScript code at near native speed and is backwards compatible with all browsers (just running the code slower). With ASM.js Microsoft could bring .NET to all browsers without even needing to update the browsers themselves (just running faster when in a browser that supports ASM.js). So far only Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox support it, I'm waiting for Google Chrome to jump on the bandwagon honestly as it's genius. Also if you want an idea of how powerful it is, it helped Mozilla run the Unreal 4 Engine in Firefox at 1080p in 60FPS without lag.