Was .NET All a Mistake?

mikejuk writes "The recent unsettling behavior at Microsoft concerning .NET makes it a good time to re-evaluate what the technology is all about. It may have been good technology, but with the systems guys building Windows preferring to stick with C++, the outcome was inevitable. Because they failed to support its way of doing things, .NET has always been a second-class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs — especially the latest. .NET started out as Microsoft's best challenge to Java but now you have to ask: what has the excursion into managed code brought the Microsoft programmer, and indeed what good has it done Microsoft? From where we are now, it begins to look very much like an unnecessary forced detour, and Windows programmers are going to be living with the mess for years to come."

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Was .NET all a mistake?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you really need an entire article to give you the answer to that one?

Re:Was .NET all a mistake?

[somersault]

Now I don't feel that bad for never being interested in .NET.. and yet, I suppose if you get in on all the bullshit early it can give you a few years worth of work.

Signs point to

[jra]

"Yes".

Messy

[flaming error]

> Windows programmers are going to be living with the
> mess for years to come.

It's a dirty job, and every other Friday I cry all the way to the bank.

A mistake?

[Brummund]

Yeah, look at the flop that is asp.net, or how hard doing protocol agnostic services with WCF is. *sigh* .NET is a huge success in the corporate world, and hopefully c# will be one of the last nails in VB's coffin.

If you measured Java's success based on the non-proliferation of applets, it too is a flop.

(And if you are a Java programmer, I hope you get something similar to Linq soon :-)

Re:Not For My Company

[Psychotria]

cosm didn't specify it was 10 million DOLLARS a year; perhaps it's 10 million new applications a year, although I do think that would be a heavy workload

Re:Was this article all a mistake?

[ThePiMan2003]

Thank god. VB 6 is horrid. I am still trying to rehabilitate people who spent to many years programming in it.

Re:What?! On the contrary: .NET is becoming releva

[idontgno]

I'm looking forward to the Year of the .Net Desktop.

That, Strong AI, and flying cars.

Windows?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Windows?

What are these "windows" of which you speak, strange visitor?

Re:No?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, but secure website programming in C fucking well is.