OT; Will MS kill .NET ?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 01:28:38 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I can across this off-topic. It is 2 years old, but it seems 
> well written.
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> http://i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/2591-dumping-net-microsofts-madness.html
>
>
> Here is a preview book from MS, to back up this point above:
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/08/20/free-ebook-programming-windows-8-apps-with-html-css-and-javascript-second-preview.aspx
>
> Has anyone heard anything more up to date ?  Will MS just let 
> .NET slowly die ?
>
> Nick

Usually these articles are written by people without proper 
Microsoft ecosystem experience.

I do consulting both on Java and .NET worlds mainly.

.NET is still going strong, Microsoft has done quite a few 
updates in the form of .NET 4.5 recently and most talks at BUILD 
2013 were about .NET.

What has happened was shift to the native runtime WinRT (which is 
basically COM) as the common platform. Althought only for Window 
Apps, not desktop based.

.NET is fully supported and no different than MSVCRT for C(++), 
or phobos for D.

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Paulo