Wow. I'm not feeling ready to consign .NET to the realm of the boring quite yet even if, perhaps, that is what a successful development tool starts to look like at some point.
I'm finding rich territory in applications that run on the "internet of things" - marshaling remote devices to interact with the real world and provide a rich variety of ways to bring data to users about the world and give them the ability to control their world. .NET has some great APIs for doing these kinds of things. At the end of the day, the interesting stuff is in the applications, not really in the development platform. For web development, absolutely, client-side apps on the browser and on the backend have moved away from .NET - was it really ever the first choice? Clearly, for many of the things I've been doing lately to integrate robotics, communications, sensors and number crunching applications on Windows, .NET (OK let's just admit C#) still has some legs. I'm pretty excited about mono for cross-platform and mobile applications. Maybe there's still a place in "ALT" for pushing the envelope when it comes to .NET on other platforms. I've enjoyed meeting lots of the ALT-net members and look forward to keeping in touch. It would be nice if we could keep the conversation going, but things do change. Embrace it! Regards, Mike CTO ATT Metrology. On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:45:02 PM UTC-7, Dave Foley wrote: > > Friends, > > It has been nearly a year since the last non-spam post and so I think it > is nigh on time to close the doors on this google group. The "ALT" has > become mainstream and many of the members of the group no longer work with > .NET on a daily basis, myself included. > > Before I click the "disable posts" button, I'm curious to hear what you > all have been up to over the past few years, technically and professionally. > > As for me, I haven't touched .NET or Windows in any serious way for the > past 6 years or so. I've done independent consulting, agency work, and now > am working on a new startup. I've worked with ruby, java, a bunch of > javascript (node.js and browser), and a smattering of other techs: python, > golang, clojure, objective-c, and PHP (ugh). > > I have missed C# at various times over the past few years -- most acutely > during the periods when I've worked with Java. > > I don't miss Windows at all. > > What have YOU been up to? > > Dave > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to altnetseattle+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to altnetseattle@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
