Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap

Slipping under the (un)Inspire radar this week was an update to .NET 5 and a peek at where Microsoft plans to take Azure DevOps. Never did no Arm Microsoft emitted Preview 7 of .NET 5.0 yesterday and admitted that finishing Arm64 support was proving more time-consuming than it had hoped, a pain for those enduring Windows on …

[Anonymous Coward]

The Microsoft roadmap...

...there is a fork in the road: do you the the left-hand fork and drown in quicksand, or the right-hand fork and get repeatedly penetrated in your sensitive regions by angry goblins - and then drown in quicksand?

Decisions, decisions...

[logicalextreme]

Re: The Microsoft roadmap...

Which bit of this analogy is Powershell Core?

[DCdave]

Lifecycle

Surely most commercial dev currently on .NET core 3.1 (LTS) will wait for .NET 6 (LTS), rather than jump to .NET 5 (not LTS) unless they really, really need new features that badly? I would imagine broadly the same for those on .NET 4.8.

[Warm Braw]

Those enduring Windows on Arm devices

Is that a gender-neutral pronoun, or is there genuinely more than one?

[Ken Moorhouse]

Arm?

For anything to do with Arm development, the "Extinguish" term is deprecated, they can give it the "Elbow" instead.