[Info-vax] BASIC (and Horizon)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/1/2024 11:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 22:11:20 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> On 1/31/2024 9:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:42:50 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>>> C# is primarily for business applications.
>>>
>>> Never heard of it being used for anything important. For example,
>>> Microsoft would never use it itself in Office.
>>
>> It is correct that MS never rewrote MSO from C++ to C#.
>> They did port VS to C# though.
> 
> Maybe, but VS Code takes an entirely different tack, using Electron (the
> Chromium engine + TypeScript/JavaScript) instead. Wonder why?

VSC was intended to compete with Atom on Windows/Linux/macOS. VSC
was released before .NET Core. So MS did not have much of a choice.

>> But C# is all over. Finance, e-commerce, government etc..
> 
> All that stuff that’s now in the cloud?

A lot of it.

But C# does not care if if the hardware it runs on is
bought or rented.

Arne