Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 20th Feb 2002 18:45 UTC
A lot of people have trouble understanding what .NET really is and what its goals are. Mostly because Microsoft has done a good job of confusing everybody using terms that are not self-explanatory or with terms that mean more that one thing. This editorial will present my thoughts on .NET, what it really is, what its motivations and goals are, and why it is the next "big thing." Should we embrace it or fear it? Both, I daresay.
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For the person that talked about php being a way to communicate cross platform, that's all good and fine, except .NET does that to programs.
Yeah, as I said, C, LISP, hell use Scheme or Haskell if you want. Just make it communicate via SOAP.
I don't have anything against SOAP or RPC. But its just ridiculous the way .NET is being covered in the media (including this article). You guys make it sound as if I'm not using Microsoft's terrible APIs, I can't communicate with any other programs.
Every program that has a .NET runtime, no matter what OS no matter what processor, it will run at near C speed. No recompiling for the end user ever again which is a big step over what some OSs can provide.
Yay! Developers are locked into a closed API, running only on Windows. If you think your Windows Forms apps are ever going to run unmodified on OS X or Linux, you're fooling yourself. And I'm sure cell phone & PDA users will be easily able to use those same apps...not.
Different platforms have different requirements; that's what makes them unique. OS X has cool GUI features that users love - sheets, drawers, etc. There are also cool innovations in some of the Linux desktop environments...I don't think that the .NET Framework will somehow automagically use these features. And it won't seamlessly scale down desktop UIs for the handheld market without any code modification.
The more I read, the more it appears that the "M$ crowd," or those who despise Microsoft, would sooner see personal computing be less productive than see it be advanced by Microsoft.
To hear Eugenia and Adam tell it, we should give up our customized platforms. Their unique features which causes us to choose them are holding back productivity. Hell, we all should have switched to Windows years ago. It'd be a lot easier than staying in denial, and holding on to a dead platform. It's just evolution, after all. Huzzah!