Re:Why Go?
by exeldapp on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @01:40PM
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Normally I don't think anyone would be losing their mind, but this is a Microsoft team creating a widely popular Microsoft product and they use a Google product (Go) instead of using another Microsoft product (C#) that is arguably competing with it. It strikes as odd why a Microsoft team isn't comfortable with/trusting a Microsoft product.
I think it makes sense that some people are taking this in a way that maybe they shouldn't trust in C#'s future either.
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yeah, i saw that inference too; but i think it's a silly one - it would be like those same people being upset that new windows core features aren't written in C# (and, we shouldn't forget the other targeting languages)
but i'm also a fan of languages, so my opinion may be screwy ;p
Re:Why Go?
by mike_hearn on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @05:24PM
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The fact that the Windows team rejected C# actually was a reason to think twice about it (and Office, and ...) . If nothing else it had deep implications for .NET's backwards compatibility story, and it sent the message that people with existing C++ codebases shouldn't view it as a natural next step despite the .NET team originally pushing dialects of C++ and P/Invoke pretty hard.