Silverlight Programming and Managed JavaScript - video
posted by TunnelRat(0) 4 years, 8 months ago 0
OMGWTF? Worthless! What is this garbage? Here are some quotes from this video: "Not much exciting here" "This looks like some code here" "You know, I'm doing the same stuff" "This is actually not going to work" "Look, this button turns red" "I've got a button..." This whole Silverlight thing stinks, it just reeks of vaporware. Is is a Flash-killer? Flex-killer? Who knows? Atlas is still too raw, so why would I waste my time with this garbage? Feel free to flame me for being "closed minded, rigid, a fuddy-duddy," but I am not a hobbyist -- I don't have time to keep up with the current ADHD culture at Microsoft. They need some focus -- the LINQ, ATLAS, SIlverlight, DLRT, ORCAS thing is starting to look like they are trying to throw pasta on the wall and see what sticks. How about stabilizing Atlas, putting out some decent documentation that demos a FULL web application (e.g., ISpy) using the technology, and stop confusing the developer community? Accordians, rounded corners, buttons that turn red don't do anything for those of us who have to code for a living.
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Is Microsoft Losing the Alpha Geeks
What is this obssesion with "expressiveness"? Go write poertry if you want to be expressvive. All the Ruby geeks I've met are hackers -- code-and-load scripters who have never worked on enterprise applications that have a full SDLC. They suffer from a severe case of programming ADD mixed in with OCD (they keep changing their mind about what programming langauge to obsess over). ROR is great for Web 2.0 startups, flipmeat, and MySpace clones trying to get the first round of VC funding. After that, the wheels fall off. But Microsoft is chasing its tail by trying to court this crowd. M$ has, for the most part, made robust, useful, and tightly integrated suites of IDEs and tools for the enterprise developer. The Alphas can't handle that overhead -- they have to code, right now, in nothing more than a command line or text editor. It is part of their immediate gratification mindset.
Sorry if my post came off sounding like a personal attack on Ruby developers (who, IMHO, do take things a little too personal), but I've spent the last six months sitting next to a wanna-be Ruby programmer. He got hired as a contractor to do Delphi/C# programming and spent his days bashing Microsoft, ranting about Ruby, and building hello world ROR apps on the company's dime. Whenever an ad-hoc technical discussion arose, he shouted out non-sequiters about how great Ruby is and how it would solve all of our problems. He bitched because SQL wasn't dynamic or expressive enough -- even though after years as a contractor, he could barely write SQL. Anecdotal? Perhaps, but the Ruby camp is starting to be a little obnoxious with all its religious ferver. Sure, it's another choice, but please don't stroll into a Microsoft shop with a chip on your shoulder and start picking your own platform to develop on.