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by jp555 4295 days ago
Any other company who's language runs over 1.3 million apps used by hundreds of millions of people on average every 6 minutes?
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romanovcode 4295 days ago
Oracle and Microsoft. But their languages (Java and C#) are not platform dependent.

Just an example:

>Microsoft released C# Roslyn source code, announce Linux support with K Runtime this year

They're going to the right direction, maybe someday...

>Apple released Swift, closed source language that runs only on one platform (Mac)

Apple is so awesome, keep innovating guys! Now let's write a webstack and nosql db using Swift!

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mnem 4295 days ago
C# is hideous to get running consistently (if at all) with recent versions and libraries cross platform. Perhaps this will change in the future, but they've not been particularly brilliant about it over the past decade
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romanovcode 4295 days ago
I don't know what libraries you talking about but nearly everything from nuget starting with image processing and ending with orms and crypto work just fine on linux.

Even more when K will come out I don't think there will be any worries at all.

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threedaymonk 4294 days ago
NuGet doesn't quite work just fine on Linux, but it's getting better. Slowly.

http://nuget.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/threed...

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romanovcode 4294 days ago
Yea, maybe, I don't even know. I develop on Windows and only deploy to Linux.

Let's just hope that with the release of VS2014 and K Runtime all those things will get solved like MS promised.

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