Are .NET programmers going extinct?

I like the idea that WFC is the "hardcore" Windows programmer language. Perhaps the author's brain would explode if I showed him the 80-line C boilerplate for setting up a simple, single-window app using the Win32 API (where the function signatures were decorated with the PASCAL #define). Ah memories.

Eyeroll-worthy headlines like these are good for one thing, at least: I know not to even bother clicking through to read the article.

I find it hard to believe just because C# and F# are the only first-class languages on Windows. Iron Ruby is pretty good now, but that took years to get it close to Ruby MRI. The same can be said for other languages. Newer run-times like node.js are very hard to get set up in Windows (even if you use cygwin). Pretty much any new trendy language goes to Linux first (unless Microsoft is the creator).

As long a Windows has market share it will have programmers, and most of those programmers are going to use .NET.

Microsoft showed off a new option for creating UIs and now everyone is running around saying the whole .NET eco-system is going down the can.

If you believe that you are a freaking idiot!

No. The sky is not falling. There's more to .NET programming than just desktop apps.

1. Those HTML5 + JS apps will talk to web services, which will likely be written in .NET talking to SQL Server.

2. Traditional apps still work in Win8

Wow, the media is really biting on that RUMOR, eh? Jeez.

For any headline using the form of a question, the answer to that question is usually, "no".

What a bunch of garbage.