Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by com2kid on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @01:48PM (#8597371)

Now I love C#, but in defense of the above poster, standard library code is often pretty gnarly stuff.

C++ is the poster child for this. No one argues that C++ is a bad language just because the standard library is full of magic.

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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by jbooth on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @02:11PM (#8597495)

Actually, I hold exactly that opinion about C++ :)

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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by 72deluxe on Thursday November 13, 2014 @04:40AM (#8600681)

I find the STL great! Sure, some compiler template messages can be tricky to understand but STL doesn't detract from C++ - you don't have to use the STL (but you're probably losing out if you don't use it and roll all those containers and algorithms yourself)

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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by com2kid on Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:19PM (#8603053)

Oh using the STL itself is fine, but some of the code behind it looks like a completely different language!

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