Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

14-Nov-2014 23:20, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" пишет:
> On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 19:38:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 18:30:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> 14-Nov-2014 13:48, Paulo Pinto пишет:
>>>>
>>>> It is primitive compared to modern language standards, but companies
>>>> see
>>>> business value in it. Even Microsoft has joined the party with Azure
>>>> support for Docker.
>>>
>>> Frankly this doesn't have anything to do with Go as in langauge. For
>>> instance, just because I use tools written in Perl doesn't mean I
>>> endorse Perl.
>>
>> Yes you do, this is economy 101.
>>
>> By using tools based on Perl you are creating a market perpection that
>> it is worth creating tools in Perl.
>
> Haha, yes, to quote Google's Go blog:
>
> «infrastructure companies like Google, CloudFlare, Canonical, Digital
> Ocean, GitHub, Heroku, and Microsoft are now using Go to do some heavy
> lifting»
>

Classics! :)

I love these kinds of statements with "heavy lifting" and "great 
scalability" and "huge amounts of data". And things like e.g. Python web 
frameworks claiming to be "super fast" at request routing because they 
compile regular expressions at start-up. How smart... OMG.

> http://blog.golang.org/5years
>
> It is fun how they claim Microsoft is using Go to do some heavy lifting…
> I am sure Microsoft is thrilled with the formulation!



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Dmitry Olshansky