Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 16:28:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 15:32:45 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> Why would you do it? One nice feature of .net from day one was 
>> that you can write code in any language, they interoperate on 
>> byte code level.
>
> I have no need for it at the moment, but please note that some 
> web services only provide .net clients. So being able to 
> convert those client libraries to other languages open up new 
> integration possibilities.

The proper way is for the other languages to provide a compiler 
that generates MSIL.

Plus, it is quite easy to expose .NET objects as COM, so any 
language able to consume COM should be able to talk to .NET.

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Paulo