http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx -------------- Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/a...eview-of-visual-studio-2015-and-net-2015.aspx -------------- Microsoft open-sources .NET framework and offers Visual Studio Community 2013 for free http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/201...s-visual-studio-community-2013-free-everyone/
Yay awesome! I hope this leads to more cross-platform applications, and .NET as a viable alternative to JVM.
Exactly! An insecure environment that nobody asked for except for some lazy or less skilled programmers.
I think you are mistaken. a) Programs using the .NET runtime are managed code, and are immune to the memory management issues that plague C/C++ programs, barring bugs in the runtime itself. Silverlight is a different matter, but who uses Silverlight? b) Right now Java and the JVM are hugely dominant in industry. JVM is fast, but it's also incredibly heavy on resources. Competition is good, and might provide impetus for Oracle to improve the JVM. Edit: c) Writing large applications in C/C++ is really freaking hard. Memory management is an absolute bear in something the size of e.g. a browser, which is why modern browsers have vulnerabilities galore and need things like Chrome's setuid/seccomp sandbox. OTOH, Python/Ruby/etc. are too slow for a lot of things (especially on servers). Runtime environments like JVM and .NET bridge that gap, allowing large applications to run at decent speed. AFAIK the only other competitors to JVM are projects like Parrot and LuaJIT that barely anyone's heard of... So yeah, having most of .NET as open source is a good thing IMO.
An unsecure environment is an extra risk for the user, no matter if it was shipped by Oracle or Microsoft. Praising such cross-platform environments because they cut costs is like **potentially offensive phrase removed**
@Pharao a) Implementation flaws != design flaws b) Cross-platform runtimes are an absolute vital necessity in this age
