Posts by Sin2x

Feeling saucy? Microsoft would like you to use .NET 5.0 'go live' release in production to track down 'critical bugs'

.NET platform is now on a yearly cadence, with biannual LTS releases, so you are on the right track with .NET 6 LTS a year from now.

Re: The end of Windows

They are not moving from it, it's not just not the main source of revenue nowadays. Azure is.

As if you needed another reason not to use Visual Studio, C++ extension for Visual Studio Code is live

Re: C++

You are mixing up the paid Visual Studio and its free little brother Visual Studio Code, which is a completely different piece of software despite a similar name.This story is about the latter.

First effort to unify sprawling .NET estate nearly done with 5.0 set for November release

Re: RANT!!!!!

Geoffrey, C# is not only perfectly OK for "mission-critical stuff" too, it's much better than C++ for safety reasons. It's faster than Go which is today's fad GC-language:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/go-csharpcore.html