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0 pointsncmncm6y ago0 comments

You can fork them and become (or remain) irrelevant.

Ios development is a walled garden. C# is barely used except to target Windos. Go? Too early to say. If it did fade away, who would miss it, really? Its express design purpose was to be not powerful enough to make big mistakes in. Has it transcended that? If so, what is its purpose now?

Java has shown staying power, despite its shortcomings, although its connection to the Apache Foundation ("where projects go to die") offers just a ray of hope.

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Goz3rr6y ago

I write software for embedded Linux devices in C# for a living, not exactly targeting Windows now is it?

ncmncmOP6y ago

That use qualifies neatly under "barely".

PetitPrince6y ago

>C# is barely used except to target Windos

The Unity game engine use C# for scripting; I wouldn't call that "barely used".

ncmncmOP6y ago

Anything less than a billion lines counts as "barely used".

Anything less than ten billion lines counts as "little used".

How big is Unity?

cheerlessbog6y ago

Unity is behind "Pretty much half of all games " on all platforms [1] I suppose it's possible there have been 100K Unity games written if you include abandoned efforts, education etc. No idea of mean LOC but that multiplies out to a lot.

Also Xamarin which if I read this [2] correctly owns a third of the mobile app market. I don't know whether that's credible but apps are a huge market.

It is possibly that could get you the 10 bn. It is quite certain that there has been more than 10 bn lines written on.NET Framework, probably far more, as for 15+ years it has been the dominant language for corporate apps built on the Microsoft stack.

On top of that.NET Core is growing much faster over time,according to their blogs, and it's cross platform as you know.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/09/05/unity...

[2] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/madp/xamarin-market-sh...

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Goz3rr6y ago

I write software for embedded Linux devices in C# for a living, not exactly targeting Windows now is it?

ncmncmOP6y ago

That use qualifies neatly under "barely".

PetitPrince6y ago

>C# is barely used except to target Windos

The Unity game engine use C# for scripting; I wouldn't call that "barely used".

ncmncmOP6y ago

Anything less than a billion lines counts as "barely used".

Anything less than ten billion lines counts as "little used".

How big is Unity?

cheerlessbog6y ago

Also Xamarin which if I read this [2] correctly owns a third of the mobile app market. I don't know whether that's credible but apps are a huge market.

On top of that.NET Core is growing much faster over time,according to their blogs, and it's cross platform as you know.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/09/05/unity...

[2] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/madp/xamarin-market-sh...

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