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Russell's dot-net rants

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Russell said some pretty nice things about Dot-Net in his most recent anti-Microsoft rant, take a look:

  • I've got some old coworkers and blog pals who are doing some really cool stuff with Dot-Net
  • Many of the dumb ass things in Java have been fixed [by Dot-Net]
  • [Dot-Net] means that you can program in any "language" that you want
  • [Dot-Net Studio] is still the best IDE there is
  • [Dot-Net's] WindowsForms kicks Swing's ass
  • In as little as 4 or 5 years, Java could be a niche language like COBOL
  • [The Dot-Net] CLR is going to be faster on M$OSes than the JVM

This sounds like a pretty bad situation for us Java advocates. Versions of our favorite open source Java tools are being ported to C#. The GNOME folks are working feverishly to port C# and the CLR to UNIX. To top it all, the chairman of our revered Jakarta Project is a Dot-Net blogger.

My thoughts on this? Nobody knows who what technologies will win out in the short term or in the long term so my advice to you is: hedge your bets.


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