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Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista
smallstepforman writes "In a classic example of "Do as I say, not as I do", Richard Grimes analyses the ratio of native to managed code in Microsoft's upcoming Vista Operating System. According to the analysis at Microsoft Vista and .NET, "Microsoft appears to have concentrated their development effort in Vista on native code development. Vista has no services implemented in .NET and Windows Explorer does not host the runtime, which means that the Vista desktop shell is not based on the .NET runtime. The only conclusion that can be made from these results is that between PDC 2003 and the release of Vista Beta 1 Microsoft has decided that it is better to use native code for the operating system, than to use the .NET framework.""
Look, it has been Bill's dream to put forth BASIC as the
#1 programming language from day 1. c# is BASIC. It is C++-like enough
to placate/trick the C++ users into taking it seriously. But its
a 4GL -- a runtime dependent language.
In the end, C++ is and always will be the language of choice for
the developer that needs to problem solve.
As an added bonus, the more developers that use C#/.NET instead of C++,
the less MS has to be concerned with competition.
Hmmm. So why am I even posting this? I guess I must want competition.... ; )
Did comedy central pull the scientology episode tonight? They hyped it all week. This could get very interesting.
What is this .NET framework anyway?
Did a search for it and apart from some buzzworded texts and complaints about it I came up with nothing that actually said what it was...
I remeber posters here on /. predicting that .NET was the wave of the future: it was easier and faster to code apps with; it was more secure; and most of all, it was the future, get off your dead ass and learn it!
Naysayers were modded down and anyone who dared to mention that Microsoft has done this in the past only to yank the rug out from under and release the next "new" thing to force everyone to buy all over again was derided.
Well, where are you now, you Microsoft shills? Still coding in what Microsoft will soon make obsolete technology?
Ok and how many of those program do most people actually use? IE and Outlook Express (stupid people), media player if they aren't really into music and media (again stupid people), and solitare and co. Firstly except for the first 3 everything else is a complete waste of MS's time to implement in .Net. Sure it can be done but why bother when you weren't going to update the software anyway? Talk about a stupid post. Why did I even bother replying...? =/
1) MS published .NET assemblies are not obfuscated.
2) To even suggest reverse engineering 100mil lines of obfuscated code is doable shows you know not what obfuscation is capable of.
Hey, there are disassemblers for native code too.