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.NET Core 1.0 Released, Now Officially Supported By Red Hat (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft on Monday announced the release of .NET Core, the open source .NET runtime platform. Finally! (It was first announced in 2014). The company also released ASP.NET Core 1.0, the open-source version of Microsoft's Web development stack. ArsTechnica reports:Microsoft picked an unusual venue to announce the release: the Red Hat Summit. One of the purposes of .NET Core was to make Linux and OS X into first-class supported platforms, with .NET developers able to reach Windows, OS X, Linux, and (with Xamarin) iOS and Android, too. At the summit today, Red Hat announced that this release would be actively supported by the company on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Does anyone outside of a fortune 10 still write .NET?
.net. People arent running things in azure because its a cloud platform, theyre doing it because Azure is tied into their corporate service and license contracts as an inextricable component of some arcane 80's power lunch style discount. And developers arent writing software in windows because its their preference or its more reliable.
Microsoft is coming to the party about a decade late here. First they wanted to be the next Apple, and when that didnt pan out and they couldnt release competitor hardware that wasnt 4 years late, they started rolling out open source, BSD, and a linux cloud offering in the hopes to one day become IBM...or some subset thereof. They see the writing on the wall.
People dont run Azure unless theres some reason you need Microsoft in the cloud, and even then its a hard sell when proposing alternatives with a 15 year track record like hosted exchange. Windows 10 isnt being run by corporations, its being jackbooted into the home with non-negotiable upgrades to desktop systems. most developers are already very happy with linux/OSS offerings like containers and engine yard. If we wanted portability, the gold standard is the java in everyones smartphone. if we wanted scaleability there are plenty of other opportunities with C or erlang that run circles around
Good people go to bed earlier.
Now with .NET, the MS backdoor takeover of RedHat is more or less complete: systemd and Gnome make it hard for me to tell the difference between the two. Or maybe it's the backdoor of RedHat into Microsoft... Either way, similar result.
(taken with a slight wink and nod to the humor-impaired amongst you)
I think it's a much needed expansion of the .Net ecosystem (better late than never) and I do think will become a useful alternative to the JVM, which Oracle seems to have little interest in evolving or improving. It took forever to get invokedynamic added as an opcode. Tail call optimization is still not supported, after years of being requested. And there's tons of other ideas on the table that aren't getting anywhere.
In the case of .Net core, it's all open source. The runtime, the compiler, the cli tools. Sure, Microsoft isn't going to take any proposal on the table, but there's a process for making changes. And, C# is a great language to develop in (and F# is nice when you need it). And who knows, maybe it'll be a Scala target some day. I honestly think people will be surprised at it's performance compared to the JVM. It's adapted a lot of modernization that the JVM eschews for backwards compatibility and known predictability.
I actually like PowerShell; it has improved over the years and being able to use .NET namespaces inside your shell script is useful. Right tool, for the right job after all.