Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by pjmlp on Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:54AM (#8602518)

I am not the OP. Just commenting on this

> Scala has been throwing out bad features in pretty much every single release for the last 5 years.

You cannot throw out features in a language with the community size C# has, otherwise you just get another Python 3.0.

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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by frowaway001 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:37PM (#8603179)

I'm not sure comparing C# to Python makes sense.

  a) Microsoft is in an excellent position to make such 
     changes, unlike Python, because Microsoft shops will 
     largely do whatever Microsoft tells them.

     Just have a look at how often they have incompatibly 
     changed the standard library used by C#.

  b) Not every language has to botch the transition as badly
     as Python designers did.

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