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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by mr_toad on Saturday January 26, 2019 @07:19PM (#19009488)
I’ve always liked C#. But official support outside Windows is only very recent.

And .NET is still very much Microsoft’s baby. Unlike an independent language like C or JS or Rust, MS could pull the rug out at any time.

Yes, Mono. But Mono is an unofficial port of a moving target. They have no control over the direction of .NET.

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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by benaadams on Saturday January 26, 2019 @07:30PM (#19009543)
.NET Foundation's baby now https://dotnetfoundation.org/

With open membership https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-... and election of its board https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-...

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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by mr_toad on Saturday January 26, 2019 @08:04PM (#19009706)
The board hasn’t even been elected yet!

Maybe MS will in future cede all control over the language. Maybe in future 99% of code contributions won’t come from Microsoft employees.

But even then it would take years for the language to become more widely adopted outside Windows.

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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by mandeepj on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:25PM (#19010195)
> MS could pull the rug out at any time.

What you mean? C# is open source. And, here is the location - https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang

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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by kevingadd on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:14AM (#19011015)
A considerable portion of Mono's original developers & current maintainers are on Microsoft's payroll and have been since the acquisition of Xamarin years ago. Because large portions of .NET and C# stewardship moved over to the .NET foundation, community members have a formal role in the development of both as well.

So in practice, 'pulling the rug out from under' Mono (or .NET Core) users would be pulling the rug out from under paying customers.

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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by VRay on Sunday January 27, 2019 @09:39AM (#19011844)
Well, surely Microsoft wouldn't randomly pull the rug out from under a small subset of its own customers!

Unrelated, anyone know how I can get my Windows 10 Mobile phone to sync Zune songs to my Windows Media Center? My Xbox360 stopped working smoothly after the last few forced updates

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