Both. On one hand, it doesn't suck. But the reason it
doesn't suck is because it doesn't *exist. Catch-a 22. <g>
It's not GOING to exist for a long long time (like, a
year). I watch the bookstore shelves (and Amazon rankings)
pretty closely. Java has userped the mindshare. End of
story. There's not going to be a whole row of C#
books on bookstore shelves. .NET (a decent concept), aside
from giving the remaining Visual Basic numbskulls something
hip to do, is about higher level fast prototyping languages
like Perl and Python (ports) accessing the same ol' same
ol' MS API, COM, etc.
At this point, MS should just pack it up when it comes to
developer mindshare. They've lost it, and it's not coming
back to them any time soon. Truly, at this point, MS should
throw in the C# towel and invite Java developers to their
.NET party. C# just isn't going to fly. It wouldn't fly if
it were released tomorrow. On the desktop, *GNOME* (GTK) has
more momentum.
Server side and more server side. Java and Perl (with
Python and the TK half of TCL/TK moving up) is where the
developers with mortgages are. MS's server mindshare is
clearly stagnant (per Netcraft) with a 20% mindshare.
According to the 80/20 rule, MS is screwed.
To my mind, they're all anout MSN and XBox these days.
-JCJ |
