Hi there
So our next meet up is in the Trinity Capital Hotel
the 21st of July at 7.00pm
After a lot of blog activity regarding the .Net ecosystem (OSS and from Microsoft) we need to ask ourselves Why .Net? Since this is a topic likely to be a bit controversial, links to reasonable blog posts can be posted here for reference, and the topic might be moderated by someone (maybe Mark?) Are you coming? Please register!
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I found this podcast recently. I found some of the arguments a little one sided but it may be worth a listen in light of tomorrows conversation. The podcast is developers who have left the .Net web space for ruby on rails.
http://herdingcode.com/?p=256
Unfortunately, I won’t make it today but I can briefly sum up here, why I don’t use dynamic languages. So to me the question would be “Java or .NET?”
When I started programming (late 80-ties/early 90-ties), people really had to care about code efficiency. The evolution has been since then mostly towards code safety, static types, object oriented design (and intellisense). This direction started many years ago and was driven by the people trying to make things easier, faster and more efficient. That is what you learn in the university (at least I did) – static typing saves a lot of time and bugs, that’s why it was accepted by all the professionals. It’s all abut getting things done and focusing on the real goals (which is no to write tests or whatever, it’s to deliver the product and to keep it reasonably maintainable).
You can imagine how the current attempts with dynamic languages together with TDD look seen with this optics – it’s like repeating the history (not exactly but you get my point) and making things more complicated.
What a coincidence! I was just researching for something like this a week ago. It’s odd how you consistently find what you are looking for when you quit looking. In any case, you weren’t obligated to post this but did it generously anyway so thanks! I will have my daughter read this and possibly comment when I get home. Have a nice day!