Originally posted by kpedersen
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.NET Core is massive and Microsoft is full-on sprinting towards making it THE version of .NET. .NET Core is already getting WPF support, it has backwards compatibility with .NET Framework (making Framework completely obsolete), and they're not implementing new and exciting features into Frameowkr anymore (because they can't, it breaks compatibility, which is a major reason Core exists, it can be packaged with an app into a stand-alone app or installed side-by-side with other Core versions)
Also, .NET Framework is going to be supported forever, exactly like WSH is (do you know what that is? I'm not telling you, if you hold a match in this conversation you should know). The only thing happening is .NET Framework is not getting new features and will be kept in a feature-stasis (NOT an update/security stasis). You know, kind of like how Linux distros work?
And, how the heck is Microsoft buying Xamarin a bad thing? They were about to go under, they had zero money. If Microsoft didn't buy them they would have died along with Mono. They do a charity case and you call them evil for it? Maybe we shouldn't have this discussion, I can see it's one-sided. Nothing MS will ever do will make you unsuspicious of them. They can release Windows under the GPL and you'd call it a dirty plot.
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