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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by orthoxerox on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:39AM (#23166768)
Microsoft did kill off or sunset some parts of the Framework. WCF, WWF, AppDomain, expression trees, dynamic, VB.

People who wrote WCF services in VB for a living are probably extremely disappointed.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by mr_custard on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:41AM (#23167316)
Disappointed? Not at all! I worked with it many years ago.

Whilst WCF made some notable improvements over what existed within the ecosystem before it, it was still a sprawling, complex PITA and full of developer friction. Killing it off in this case was definitely the right thing to do :-)

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by jbeam on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:56AM (#23168195)
Do you have anything to support that expression trees are being sunset? I haven't seen anything of the sort, unless you are talking about a deprecated library that has been replaced. But System.Linq.Expressions is still around.
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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by moron4hire on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:08PM (#23168336)
I've also seen nothing about DLR being removed
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