Totally agree on that last part, but it may never happen. It's an arms race, if another framework adds a cool feature, the others follow. Shiny new objects seem to win out over great tools and stability, and they love the instability because it keeps us buying in the vicious circle :)

.Net Core is very good, it's basically Node.js on steroids. However, I have never used Razor, and stay away from most of the MS web stuff, why use them when you don't need them? I stick with straight HTML/JS/CSS because the server does a lot of things, but its main job is to deliver data to the client, whatever that client may be. By letting the client decide how to render data, the client can be Html, mobile, C++, Electron, IoT, whatever, Razor is a major distraction, IMO.

That Ezra Taft Benson, while true, is one of the dumbest remarks I've seen, and is used by some groups to put down government. The point of government is to take your money and do what's best for the people as a whole. You can argue that isn't what happens in some cases, but that misses the point. Government generally is the only entity that takes risks when the reward isn't obvious. That where just about all of our technology comes from because industry won't invest without the promise of fairly quick rewards.

What version of SignalR are you using, i.e. .net framework or .net core? BTW, they never tell you that if SignalR is on a port, in production, it's likely the firewall will block you at most companies.

What is WizardWrx?

Steven Sinofsky is the real person that started the Microsoft decline, but Balmer was the guy that put him in charge and took too long before firing him.

Some of us hope that's not true :)

The author makes a rather radical statement which isn't and shouldn't be true for all cases, but I do understand where he's coming from on this. I've been waiting for that book to come out, but lost track due to working too much :), so thanks for the reminder!

Odd that they only consider our technology capability. It's rather ignorant to assume humans would simulate human life. If this were a simulation, it's likely done by creatures studying something with better technology.

By this logic, shouldn't Google Android also own the enterprise? This is a bid don't care. Business will run on the cloud, there will be many clients.

I feel your pain! I've tried to Xamarin Forms for years, but it never worked until VS2017, but worked is somewhat a misnomer. 1. The connection between building, running and the emulator is so strange that it too a long time before I figured out how to effectively make this process work consistently. I simply run the emulator first before ever trying to debug and I get better results, but it's still very slow. 2. Watch out where you have your project. They seem to document this nowhere, but I moved a project and it never generated the debug(mdb) file after the move. I looked everywhere with no luck, only to find a post about it having path problems. It appears that if your path has a "$" in it, the debug file won't be generated... yikes!!! 3. For some strange reason Xamarin Forms XAML decided to do things differently from Microsoft XAML, go figure. For instance, instead of StackPanel, they use Stack Layout, but that's the least of the offenses, so watch out. Other than that, I've been able to finally develop in a consistent fashion and am now just trying new things in an attempt to jump start the development of my first mobile app. Good Luck!

Obviously not in his office :laugh:

I agree that javascript is doing well, and I like it(I use it on the client & in Node.js), but it isn't the #1 language used in development, so I'm not sure what you mean by winning. It's also a holy mess unless you're writing a lot of small programs, which most people do. When you get bigger, you need Typescript to keep the code clean. Finally, we will be able to use other languages in the browser, it's just taking a bit longer than I like. Take a look at Webassembly to see where this is going.

Most MVVM problems can be solved with a Mirror :laugh:

Shannon was the father of Information Theory, not technology, there's a huge difference. As an Electrical Engineer I had to study his equations, and his theory was the cornerstone of modern thinking about information, close to E=MC2's impact in physics, and led to everything we're doing now! His theory opened the door to satellite communications and any form of digital communication that occurs, giving us a full understand of the properties of the communication channel. Good explanation here: Information theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]

LOL, good one!!!

I actually agree with that!

Where's the nearest mens room?

Flash may be a bad citizen on the web, but this is a sad day that plugins are going away! Apple, well, Steve Jobs, really pulled the wool over the eyes of developers, forcing the no plugin activity that has consumed everybody! Jobs real agenda was to limit innovation, the plugin innovation that is the very reason the internet is as good as it is today. Plugins may cause problems, but they also lead to major innovation, which won't be happening anymore, now that the ONLY innovation that comes will be slaved to browsers makers, when and if they feel the need, which they won't in a standards based world. We will get incremental innovation, but nothing like what Flash, Silverlight and other technologies brought us!

I stopped using my Mac basically, but this functionality is everywhere now! I mostly use that functionality in mind mapping applications(MindJet)!