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Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution For Linux And Mac
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| Apr 29, 2015
| Frederic Lardinois
Posted on 05/08/2015 2:10:24 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: dayglored
I grew up on Microsoft's Embrace-Extend-Extinguish so I'm a healthy skeptic too. But I'm willing to watch and see what they do with this. Right now, I think the only thing that stands threatened is mono.
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05/08/2015 5:20:20 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: dayglored
I think the only value it has is to give the ability to port legacy .NET apps to non-Windows servers without having to rewrite it.
But at least now MS can sell .NET as not forcing you into vendor lock-in.
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posted on
05/08/2015 5:21:56 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I think the only value it has is to give the ability to port legacy .NET apps to non-Windows servers without having to rewrite it.Weren't you drooling over the prospect of having PowerShell sessions on your Linux boxes?
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posted on
05/08/2015 5:27:14 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: CarmichaelPatriot
http://robnapier.net/xcode-visual-studio
So to VS guys I say: Give XCode a chance. Its better than you think once you are used to Mac interfaces and if youre working on Cocoa apps (which XCode is highly optimized for). To XCode guys I say: until youve used VS for a while, dont assume that XCode has all the features it should. In the programming editor world, XCode is still kind of primitive.
To: tacticalogic
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Right now, I think the only thing that stands threatened is mono. Yeah; you probably saw the comment from me on Mono that posted a minute before yours.
The ever-present danger when writing something "compatible for another platform" is that the writer/owner of the original will eventually see the light you wish they'd seen in the first place.
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05/08/2015 6:28:05 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
The ever-present danger when writing something "compatible for another platform" is that the writer/owner of the original will eventually see the light you wish they'd seen in the first place. There's also the danger with open-source projects that the owner will eventually get a girlfriend.
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05/08/2015 6:31:23 PM PDT
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tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
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...the owner will eventually get a girlfriend. LOL!
Sadly true...
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:53:30 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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05/08/2015 7:29:08 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
Hi Swordmaker,
Yes, it's interesting times we live in... who could have imagined this happening, even only a few years ago?
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posted on
05/08/2015 7:51:15 PM PDT
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dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: Doug Loss
Agreed. I have no need of .net crap. I’m unaware of anything that it brings to the table that any one of several frameworks available for linux already provide quite well. If the bastards at MS want to do something really useful, they’ll open up the protocols for Lync so other clients can easily talk to it.
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05/08/2015 8:07:23 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
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