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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by pantalaimon on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @07:29AM (#41378348)
back when .NET was first launched it was advertised as the new way of making desktop applications on Windows. Visual C# made it very easy to design GUI interfaces.

So this "it's all for backend now" notion is surprising.

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by lelanthran on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:34AM (#41378749)
Same with java - designed for embedded set top devices, pivoted to backend services.
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by toyg on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:13PM (#41383756)
.Net is "Microsoft Java". Like Java it was designed to do everything, but as desktop development died (and mobile development was locked down by Apple and Google, limiting it to their corporate languages), it pivoted towards networked applications.
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by chgs on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:04PM (#41386186)
Visual J++ was Microsoft’s Java
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by toyg on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:09AM (#41389542)
They were legally forbidden from going the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish route there, so they had to build their own version from scratch. C# exists because J++ couldn't.
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