Introducing .NET Standard

Re:Introducing .NET Standard by terrajobst on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:43PM (#12584462)

I fully share your concerns. I've expressed this problem with a homage to XKCD:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2014/12/04/introduci...

Don't think of .NET Standard as another .NET platform. Think of it as the standard that ties them all together. It's similar in spirit to POSIX. It's not another Unix, it's a way to write code that works on multiple Unixes.

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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by pja on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:51PM (#12584537)

As an aside, the content type for that URL is application/octet-stream, so Firefox won’t view the image but insists on downloading it. It needs to be image/png to be viewable in browser I believe.

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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by terrajobst on Monday September 26, 2016 @03:07PM (#12584682)

Thanks, replaced with the link to my post. I'm clearly not a web guy ;-)

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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by pjmlp on Monday September 26, 2016 @05:54PM (#12585922)

I think of POSIX as the actual C runtime.

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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by iamcreasy on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:44PM (#12590947)

Isn't POSIX just a specification?

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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by pjmlp on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:33AM (#12595819)

Yes, just like ANSI C is one.

The point being that ANSI C didn't took the rest of UNIX APIs to other OSes as part of the specification, but in the end most OSes that adopted C ended up having to support POSIX as well as a means to have some kind of usable C library common across OSes.

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