Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/9/13 11:17 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 18:31 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> […]
>> I wonder where you got this idea from.
>
> It may just be FUD, but…
>
>> .NET is pretty strong at Microsoft conferences, even this year BUILD had
>> lots of new goodies announced.
>>
>> They can decide to target the WinRT runtime instead of the CLR, go fully
>> native instead of generating MSIL bytecodes, or keep using CLR.
>
> There appears to be a lowering of the CLR position in the Microsoft
> public stances, and a rise of the native position (mostly C++).
> Clearly .NET remains a strong Microsoft technology in the short term,
> but it has not really achieved the penetration recently that perhaps it
> should.

I concur in the sentiment. My perception is that the new Windows 8 
architecture (forgot the name... that layered thing) downplays CLR.


Andrei