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It is coming!

We love F# and it continues to be both an inspiration to other languages at Microsoft, as well as API developers.

Luckily, very little.

The reason is that C# had a chance to learn from the experience of others and is still a relatively new language.

There is a little bit of cruft here and there. For example, ,NET had good threading support from the start, but the idioms that are used nowadays for concurrent and parallel programming have evolved, and while the old APIs are still there, developers now use APIs that are more up to date.

beefydudeon Android coming to wearables

the existing android systems might look bulky and no be very practical. their marketing campaigns have been terrible.

but the idea has feet and is probably a lot more useful than other technologies like google glass at a fraction of the cost

beefydudeon Angular 2.0

The focus on mobile web development is key here.

beefydudeon Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js

If they cared about the open web, and they cared about open source, they would be helping open source game engines like Ogre3D and Torque3D.

Instead, for the sake of expedience, we see them promoting proprietary components.

It was not too long ago that they were lecturing the world on the evils of proprietary video and audio.

beefydudeon Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Development Startup Xamarin

Owning a company is probably a lot more enticing that working for someone else.

beefydudeon Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Development Startup Xamarin

.NET is merely one of the implementations of the ISO/IEC 23271:2006 standard (http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=42927)

Mono is also an implementation of that standard, a cross platform one, and open sourc-ish (they do some dual licensing stuff)