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by CharlieDigital 1278 days ago
Not sure what the point is here, but that reality for .NET never really came to fruition. Now only C# and a tiny sliver of F# really dominate most of development on .NET.
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Well, Microsoft has always been about "our stuff is first class citizen, everything else is second class citizen". You could see that in the 2000s when Microsoft claimed Windows 2003 to be multiplatform because it could run binaries from windows 95, windows 98, windows 2000 and windows xp.

What happened with .net is that C# is first class, F# is second class, and everything else is third class citizen at best (when not directly attacked via patent litigation).

I'm late to the party, but has Microsoft sued anyone over doing things with .Net?
They might dominate, yet the CLR is polyglot and you can even buy Eiffel, Cobol and Fortran compilers to it, today.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...

https://www.silverfrost.com/1/default.aspx

https://www.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/screenshots/

People do pay money to target it, go figure!