Microsoft Developers Respond To .NET Criticism

bonch writes "Richard Grimes of Dr. Dobbs Journal wrote an article entitled Mr. Grimes' Farewell, in which he discusses what he feels are inherent flaws in .NET, and how he is abandoning his .NET column. Grimes argues that .NET is merely thin wrappers to Win32 calls (Avalon uses message functions that date back to 16-bit Windows), that Microsoft has abandoned confidence in both .NET and sales of Longhorn, and that the framework itself is too large and poorly implemented, most of it ported from past APIs like WFC and VB. Dan Fernandez, Microsoft's Visual C# Project Manager, has responded in his blog. Richard Grimes appears in the comments to defend his criticism, referencing first-hand disassembly of .NET APIs using ildasm. Scott Swigart has also responded to the criticism of Visual Basic .NET. Apparently, Mr. Grimes struck some nerves."

Comments

Re:Microsoft pays the bills!

[Yaa 101]

Nah, they just die out like should in evolution...

Thank you to Dan Fernandez

[evenprime]

RG:The framework redistributable is 25 MB, which is many times larger than the Java redistributable.

DF: My Response: Maybe I'm being too picky, but the size is 23,698K or 23.7MB. While Java's runtime is smaller, it still weighs in at 15MB.

Yup, Dan, you are being picky. You also just proved that his bloatware alert was correct.

Re:sometimes things have to hurt.

[Big Nothing]

My PS/2 works like a charm. Then again, I think it's made by Sony, not IBM.