Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 09.09.2013 22:51, schrieb 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

It is called WinRT and while it downplays the CLR, by being based in 
COM, you can target it with .NET as well.

.NET is not only the CLR, but the language runtime for VB.NET, F# and 
C#, like phobos and druntime are for D.

So it does not matter if Microsoft throws the CLR out of the window and
replaces it with WinRT, native code, or whatever they can think of.

You can still use C#, VB.NET and F# to target those new runtimes.

So I would say it is an error to think Microsoft's is not investing into 
those languages, just because they are moving back to native.

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Paulo