tedd wrote:
Hi gang:
What do you people think of the .NET framework?
Please provide your thoughts as to cost, maintenance, benefit, and
whatever else you think important.
.NET is loaded up with patents and pretty much Microsoft only, however
that said it is rather good. Previous versions of C# (1/2) are
standardized under ECMA-Script 334 and 335 which covers a lot of .NET
however doesn't include asp.net, ado.net and windows forms - thus a nice
open source implementation and platform is quite common now, namely
Mono, this is .net compatible and has good support/development and has
been used for everything from the unity game engine through to sims 3.
Might be worth having a quick look at DotGNU and portable.net (as well
as mod_mono for apache http - which supports as.net pages etc).
Might be worth noting that Stallman (as in Richard Stallman from FSF)
doesn't recommend using it because he's thinks MS will come with the
patent trolls soon, however microsoft has effectively tied themselves in
to a patent non assert ("community promise") which would prevent this.
Also worth having a look at "M" for something different/interesting/from
microsoft, and also OData which is a nice RESTful protocol.
Best,
Nathan
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