Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language

zokier writes "Microsoft has released a new programming language called Axum, previously known as Maestro and based on the actor model. It's meant to ease development of concurrent applications and thus making better use of multi-core processors. Axum does not have capabilities to define classes, but as it runs on the .NET platform, Axum can use classes made with C#. Microsoft has not committed to shipping Axum since it is still in an incubation phase of development so feedback from developers is certainly welcome."

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Re:My feedback

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Axum on Linux isn't ready for prime time, yet. However, Axum is powerful enough that you should probably change your platform to permit its use, so if you have a new app being developed, I'd force your engineers to use Axum and develop it on windows.

I agree. I'm uninstalling Linux as we speak.

I expect 15% of the software to be written in Axum within 4 year, with the rest being split between Ruby on Rails, Silverlight and Adobe Flash Player (tm).