Re:Performance Improvements in .NET 6
by int_19h on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:01PM
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"Legacy" is perhaps not the best word to describe it; what I mean is that new technologies, protocols etc being developed generally avoid XML. So new products and libraries don't have to deal with it that much. And older ones are already written relying on older versions of XPath etc, so there isn't a strong incentive to upgrade there. Even if we're talking about libraries that are still getting updated to reflect changes in the standards.
The comparison with COBOL is fairly straightforward. There's still plenty of COBOL code running in prod around the world - but you don't see much clamoring to add new features to it.
Oh, and .NET doesn't really cater specifically to the enterprise these days. It was definitely true back when it was first released (remember all the emphasis on SOAP?), and for a while after. But .NET Core was an attempt to broaden its scope, and it very much succeeded.
I should add that I'm not particularly happy about this. I did a lot of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 2.0 back in mid-00s, using Saxon, and I still miss many aspects of it. The new "best thing" seems to be JSON, but, while the syntax is certainly nicer, the tooling ecosystem around it is still nowhere near what we had back then.
The comparison with COBOL is fairly straightforward. There's still plenty of COBOL code running in prod around the world - but you don't see much clamoring to add new features to it.
Oh, and .NET doesn't really cater specifically to the enterprise these days. It was definitely true back when it was first released (remember all the emphasis on SOAP?), and for a while after. But .NET Core was an attempt to broaden its scope, and it very much succeeded.
I should add that I'm not particularly happy about this. I did a lot of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 2.0 back in mid-00s, using Saxon, and I still miss many aspects of it. The new "best thing" seems to be JSON, but, while the syntax is certainly nicer, the tooling ecosystem around it is still nowhere near what we had back then.