I really should leave this one alone, but I just can't. This article is so unbelievably biased, it is truly amazing that a site like ars allows a series like these to exist. The person who's written this series has obviously no real programming knowledge on any platform.
Moreover the way he drops in his little falsehoods borders on intent. Each and every paragraph contains one or more blatant falsehoods. Going through all of them would take way to much time.
Apparantly this Peter Bright's tried to build some winforms stuff (and failed) and he's tried to open a file (and failed somehow). These are his two major arguments against the platform.
Let's try to introduce some facts. First of all the winforms library is indeed not multithreaded. This goes for most windowing libraries. Swing is an example that springs to mind but there are many more. Making it totally thread safe would introduce a lot of overhead, making everything much slower than it needs to be. If you need to use additional threads, there are well documented ways to do this. Maybe Pater should try it... Second of all the winforms library is a very very small part of the total api. Just saying there's lot of little other things, without going into any detail is a cheap way of making a bad point.
No API is perfect but I would say given the alternatives out there it's easily one of the cleanest and well thought out api's I've used in the last 6 years. Furthermore, it the author could get his head out of his nether regions he might look in to WPF, WCF, C# 3.0 etc etc. All technologies that put.NET lightyears ahead of the competition right now. Writing these little misinformed articles is not going to change that.
This person comes across as a total beginner. You know the type, probably programmed some stuff in c++ and now thinks he's a guru on everything. In reality he's an armchair programmer, writing knee yerk articles because he coulnd't get his file to open. A lot of programmers (myself included) go through a phase like this, most move on and start seeing the bigger picture. I guess some don't and just write articles about it.
I know the average slashdotter probably won't care about an anti-microsoft hit-piece but if you're confident about using linux or mac-osx (both of which I think are perfect alternatives btw) ask yourself, why would you need lies and falsehood's to attack the 'competition'.
It's unbelievable this company get's any attention with this index. Just some quick and easy points which have been glaring mistakes for years now:
Vb is a combination of Basic, VB.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic 2005, VB 2005, Visual Basic 2003, VB 2003, Visual Basic 2002, VB 2002.
Some of these, especially the.net variants are totally different languages with only superficial similarities with the rest. Including this in the index is nonsense. Secondly one has to wonder why.net in general is so underrepresented versus java. This can be explained an their data gathering method. They google for terms like +c# programming. This ommits an entire group of articles only targetting.NET This is because of the language independant nature of the platform. Some numbers to put this 'index' in some much needed perspective:
+java programming 8.320.000
+.net programming 13.500.000
+c# programming 1.260.000
+vb programming 618.000
+vb +.net programming 664.000
This is the only meaningful way to look at the relative popularity of java &.net. Java is not only a language but also a platform, so is.net. Furthermore the majority of programming (judging from these numbers i'd say about double) in.net is done in c#. You'd have to conclude that c# should at least be up there with java.
That is if you think counting the number of search engine results is a meaningful way to get an index, which I don't.
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I really should leave this one alone, but I just can't. This article is so unbelievably biased, it is truly amazing that a site like ars allows a series like these to exist. The person who's written this series has obviously no real programming knowledge on any platform.
.NET lightyears ahead of the competition right now. Writing these little misinformed articles is not going to change that.
Moreover the way he drops in his little falsehoods borders on intent. Each and every paragraph contains one or more blatant falsehoods. Going through all of them would take way to much time.
Apparantly this Peter Bright's tried to build some winforms stuff (and failed) and he's tried to open a file (and failed somehow). These are his two major arguments against the platform.
Let's try to introduce some facts. First of all the winforms library is indeed not multithreaded. This goes for most windowing libraries. Swing is an example that springs to mind but there are many more. Making it totally thread safe would introduce a lot of overhead, making everything much slower than it needs to be. If you need to use additional threads, there are well documented ways to do this. Maybe Pater should try it... Second of all the winforms library is a very very small part of the total api. Just saying there's lot of little other things, without going into any detail is a cheap way of making a bad point. No API is perfect but I would say given the alternatives out there it's easily one of the cleanest and well thought out api's I've used in the last 6 years. Furthermore, it the author could get his head out of his nether regions he might look in to WPF, WCF, C# 3.0 etc etc. All technologies that put
This person comes across as a total beginner. You know the type, probably programmed some stuff in c++ and now thinks he's a guru on everything. In reality he's an armchair programmer, writing knee yerk articles because he coulnd't get his file to open. A lot of programmers (myself included) go through a phase like this, most move on and start seeing the bigger picture. I guess some don't and just write articles about it.
I know the average slashdotter probably won't care about an anti-microsoft hit-piece but if you're confident about using linux or mac-osx (both of which I think are perfect alternatives btw) ask yourself, why would you need lies and falsehood's to attack the 'competition'.
It's unbelievable this company get's any attention with this index. Just some quick and easy points which have been glaring mistakes for years now: Vb is a combination of Basic, VB.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2005, VB 2005, Visual Basic 2003, VB 2003, Visual Basic 2002, VB 2002.
Some of these, especially the .net variants are totally different languages with only superficial similarities with the rest. Including this in the index is nonsense. Secondly one has to wonder why .net in general is so underrepresented versus java. This can be explained an their data gathering method. They google for terms like +c# programming. This ommits an entire group of articles only targetting .NET This is because of the language independant nature of the platform. Some numbers to put this 'index' in some much needed perspective:
+java programming 8.320.000
+.net programming 13.500.000
+c# programming 1.260.000
+vb programming 618.000
+vb +.net programming 664.000
This is the only meaningful way to look at the relative popularity of java & .net. Java is not only a language but also a platform, so is .net. Furthermore the majority of programming (judging from these numbers i'd say about double) in .net is done in c#. You'd have to conclude that c# should at least be up there with java.
That is if you think counting the number of search engine results is a meaningful way to get an index, which I don't.