>>>>>What??? Google actually released something?
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>>>>>>Has anyone here tried it? Perhaps a new UT section?
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>>>>>>http://golang.org/doc/go1.html
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>>>>Hmmm the end of .net is near.
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>>>Actually, with no dotnet for Apple or Linux, at least not any really supported versions, I don't see a future for dotnet at all. Unless you are willing to bet your future only on Windows based devices. With the incerasing number of devices running on iOS, Android, Linux and other operating systems, betting on dotnet may very well turn out to be a dead end.
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>>I don't see the internet disappearing any time soon, and .NET is a perfectly viable web development platform. It's also viable for the 80+ percent of desktops running Windows. That doesn't seem like near the end to me.
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>My comment was based on the total number of smart devices, including computers, smartphones and tablets. The percentage of devices which uses Windows among this whole group is going down every day. The deciding factor will always be who's your customers, and what do they need. Unfortunately the days when your customers asked you what they had to buy to run your application, are gone. Now it's more and more the opposite; I have this device, either you make an application for it or we go somewhere else.

Which is just great for asp.net. It can serve web applications to any device, and templates and controls are available to make it easy to develop for any major platform. Now Microsoft is pushing HTML5 for asp.net sites even though HTML5 isn't a standard yet. If/when it actually becomes a supported standard, that should make all mobile devices sing songs of joy in perfect harmony.

Standard ASP.NET sites look and run pretty nice on an iPad by the way.