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Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET

Posted by Soulskill on from the long-term-strategy-is-beholden-to-the-dollar dept.

joelholdsworth passes along a story summing up concerns from developers that "Microsoft seems to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8," and asking, "is this the end of .NET?" The article continues: "To bet the farm on HTML5 and JavaScript being the next big thing is a good bet, but it's not a bet that Microsoft can easily take and make good. Even if the world does turn to JavaScript and platform-independent apps, this still means that Microsoft loses. The problem is that Microsoft needs a technology that gives it an edge, and HTML5/JavaScript is everybody's edge. Microsoft developers feel left in the dark and very angry at the way they are being treated. You only have to browse the Microsoft forums to discover how strong the feeling is: forum post 1, forum post 2 and an open letter." Reader Sla$hPot points out a similar story at OS News.

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  1. Dupe by cgeys · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is dupe from last week. Just for Joel to get some visitors to his ad ridden .info site...

  2. Yeah, cos you know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    .NET is only good for rendering client-side markup and script.

    Seriously, can Slashdot get *any* worse than this?

    1. Re:Yeah, cos you know... by bondsbw · · Score: 5, Informative

      .NET is mainly used for server-side processing.

      Wait, what? I make client applications... Windows apps. I don't make websites. I don't make client applications that require constant connection with a server. So your statement completely forgets about me and thousands of developers who need to make real applications that work in the real world, not some dream land in the cloud.

      I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft hasn't forgotten about us too.

      Oh... and this: HTML5 may excel with GUI, but it's not better than WPF. WPF is definitely better in terms of combining the power, flexibility, and ease-of-development of UIs. (Before the flaming begins... I never said WPF is better for everyone, it's just better for me and my Windows clients.)

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  3. XNA by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    .NET is mainly used for server-side processing.

    And for Xbox Live Indie Games.

  4. This is a stupid article. by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 3, Informative

    And this is why it's stupid:

    Web development is a small subset of what you can do with .NET.

    The other 90%+ of things you can do with .NET you're not going to write as a web application. Period.

    Someone might as well ask whether HTML5 will replace C++. It'd be as about as idiotic of a question. Not only is the answer obviously no in either case, even asking the question reveals that the asker doesn't have even the most basic idea of what they're talking about.

  5. Re:Why worry. by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 5, Informative

    This would be funny if millions of people weren't STILL using VB6. :P Hell, I've worked at two Fortune 500 companies in the last year that had business critical applications still in VB6.

    Now, that millions of people are still using VB6 is funny, but that's not where you were going with that.