On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
It has morphed from the .NET you all hated so much 15 years ago. They show working in Chrome and not Bing.
It wasn't that I *HATED* DotNet, but I was disappointed in how MS treated FoxPro and developers, and that the DotNet 1.0 preview I saw made it clear that it wasn't ready for prime time for a long time. But I had solutions to deliver to clients in 2002, 2003 and beyond, and I needed to find tools that were ready to do that. VFP could do that, but I couldn't trust MS.
I told people at the time that DotNet was going to recap the entire lifecycle of Java (new frameworks! new GUIs! New presentation layers!), and I predicted it would be a good solid platform for development in 8 or 10 years. Luckily, there were many alternatives to bridge the gap. I like to think I've mastered one or two of them in the past decade and a half. For the investment of another 10,000 hours, I might master DotNet, but I don't see the payback.