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by seemslegit 2050 days ago
And the next language to become unusable without a microsoft-controlled ecosystem is...
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qz2 2050 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
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tsjq 2050 days ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish .
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seemslegit 2050 days ago
Nah that was the old MS, new MS just replaces own with rent.
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estomagordo 2050 days ago
What were the previous examples of this?
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seemslegit 2050 days ago
C#, F#, Typescript, JavaScript via npm
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Master_Odin 2050 days ago
C# and F# are great examples of how MS is willing to allow people out of their ecosystem to use them with all their efforts with .NET Core and having it run places other than Windows.

npm is trivial to replace with yarn and a custom registry.

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estomagordo 2047 days ago
There were C# and TypeScript outside of MS first?
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