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Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises?

Posted by timothy on from the full-of-holes dept.

cyclocommuter writes with this snippet from The Register's assessment of whether Microsoft's .NET framework has been a success: "If the goal of .NET was to see off Java, it was at least partially successful. Java did not die, but enterprise Java became mired in complexity, making .NET an easy sell as a more productive alternative. C# has steadily grown in popularity, and is now the first choice for most Windows development. ASP.NET has been a popular business web framework. The common language runtime has proved robust and flexible. ... Job trend figures here show steadily increasing demand for C#, which is now mentioned in around 32 per cent of UK IT programming vacancies, ahead of Java at 26 per cent."

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  1. .Not by should_be_linear · · Score: 5, Informative

    Joking aside, Java is multiplatform in practice and .Net is only in theory.

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  2. Re:"mentioned" by dragonxtc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ironically did you know the guy that designed Delphi also designed C#?

  3. Re:Point & Click programming by Mr2001 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You realize the "point and click" stuff is for laying out dialog boxes, right?

    Writing boilerplate code to lay out controls and handle window messages wasn't some noble art that's been lost. It was low level tedium that distracted from real programming. I remember opening Petzold's Windows programming book and being horrified that the code for "Hello World" spanned several pages.

    I don't know about your wages, but I get paid a fair amount for my time to write C#, and that time is a lot more productive and enjoyable thanks to such things as IDEs and component libraries.

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  4. Re:Java too complex by rabbit994 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Powershell was never designed to be used by day to day admins in general administration tasks. GUI for many things allows you to look up data or make one off changes much quicker. Powershell is designed to be used by admins to script common tasks they do daily. I have a Powershell script that will parse a comma delimited text file and add every line in there as Active Directory user with Exchange Mailbox. When we get 30 new employees at work, I modify some parameters on Powershell script, take list from HR and bam, in 15 minutes, I've added 30 new users with Exchange mailboxes. That's purpose of Powershell.