>You realize that would be 4 year's subscription, right? <s> Anyway, the first month's edition, scheduled now for 7/31 (it will release with V.1 of the app builder) will be free. While it will have all the pieces needed to evaluate the product, it won't have the annotated language and class documentation (which will probably have to be pulled out to a separate eBook as it grows, but both the regular book and the annotated language/class docs will be part of the same subscription).

count me in as subscriber #22 (family mixin subclass of the famous 42)

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>My biggest wrong, by far, was thinking that .Net would be the solution for the future. To that end I supported VFP.Net and IronPython. The first disappeared, and 3 months after it said it would support dynamic languages, MS dropped IronPython. Lesson learned: I haven't look at .Net as an alternative since then -- and the .Net story has gotten worse since then, not better.

There may be more life in it than you saw - although in part via Xamarin, and in part via IKVM.
And I still believe some of the faults you perceived in .Net as such were really in the way MS toolkits/wizards are set up ;-)

regards

thomas