Why I'm not leaving .NET

15 years

Microsoft 2000

C#

Windows Forms
Web Forms

Windows Mobile

A#, Boo, C#, C++/CLI, ClojureCLR, NetCOBOL, Cobra, Component Pascal, Eiffel, F#, F*, Fantom, GrGen.NET, IronLisp, IronPython, IronRuby, IronScheme, J#, JScript.NET, L#, Lisp#, LOLcats, Nemerle, Niecza, Oxygene, P#, Phalanger, Phrogram, PowerBuilder, SQLWindows, VB.NET

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Mono

"Leaving .NET!"

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Objective-C

Node.js

Go

C# Now

• Generics
• LINQ, lambdas, extension methods
• Dynamic
• async/await
• Roslyn, exception filters, lots of new sugar

C# 7

• Algebraic data-types
• Pattern matching
• Real Tuples

C# 8?

• Lose the curly braces
• Lose the semi-colons
• Type providers...

2015

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NuGet

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dotnet/roslyn
dotnet/coreclr
dotnet/corefx
aspnet/Everything

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ASP.NET DNX

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Docker

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yo

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Xamarin

iOS, Android, OSX, Windows 10

Xamarin Studio & Visual Studio

Unity3D

Windows, Mac, Linux,
Xbox, PlayStation,
WiiU, iOS, Android,
Oculus Rift, HoloLens

HoloLens

The Internet
Of Things

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Mistakes have been made

*cough*

On the scrapheap? No.

Just getting warmed up

2030?