Re: Not with a bang, but with a whimper

What is looking nicer is MVC with Razor.  I wonder if anyone has anything to
say about it, and what is the learning curve for developers who are already
very familiar with ASP.NET 2.0?  I personally have been doing non-software
work almost this whole past year, but I did study RoR, which made me less
excited to go back to web forms.

Mike

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, the world needs more XML, and more verbose static languages.  Better
> yet, mix them together!  :)
>
> I'm sure, like with all technologies, once you get into it, you'll start
> liking it.  But looking at it from the outside, it surely looks like older
> technology and ideas.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote:
>
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>>
>> I am also extremely pessimistic about HTML for building _apps_.  (Indeed,
>> this is why I quit my job at MS a couple months ago. :-)
>>
>> Long live XAML and C#..!
>>
>> -S
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Shawn Wildermuth <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can’t understand your reticence about Silverlight. For Apps (see my
>>> post link below) I think it will continue to be a better dev experience than
>>> jQuery + HTMLX.  Of course, someone could actually build good HTML tools,
>>> but I haven’t seen this happen in the last 15 years, so I am not holding my
>>> breath. At the end of the day I still think (as I’ve been saying for 4 years
>>> now) that Silverlight is about Apps, HTML is about sites.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Shawn Wildermuth
>>>
>>> http://wildermuth.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Note: This was typed on a big ole laptop so any misspellings and
>>> punctuations are completely my fault…not my phone’s.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike
>>> *Sent:* Monday, November 01, 2010 2:17 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* [OT] Not with a bang, but with a whimper
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Lastly, there has been massive growth in the breadth and diversity of
>>> devices made by a wide variety of vendors providing both open and closed
>>> systems.  *When we started Silverlight, the number of unique/different
>>> Internet-connected devices in the world was relatively small, and our goal
>>> was to provide the most consistent, richest experience across those
>>> devices.  *But the world has changed.  As a result, getting a single
>>> runtime implementation installed on every potential device is practically
>>> impossible.  We think HTML will provide the broadest, cross-platform reach
>>> across all these devices.*  At Microsoft, we’re committed to building
>>> the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 for devices running Windows, and
>>> at the PDC, we showed the great progress we’re making on this with IE 9.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This really only makes it worse.  Because WP7 will probably be strong in
>>> the enterprise, so we'll probably still end up having to use it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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