[HN Gopher] .NET 8 Preview 1
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       .NET 8 Preview 1
        
       Author : ripley12
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-02-21 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | jjice wrote:
       | Looks like MS is moving .NET towards smaller, but more frequent
       | updates, similar to a lot of languages as of late. I honestly
       | didn't even know 7 came out, just that AOT was in the works. C#
       | was always a pleasure to work in. VB.NET is fine, but I'd rather
       | write C# any day. I'd love to get some realistic status on .NET
       | usage. I've have to imagine it's really solid, but I'd be
       | interested in how the usage outside of Windows servers and shops
       | with heavy Windows-reliance is like.
       | 
       | > Shall we play a game? How about Simon?
       | 
       | Exactly the kind of reference I like to see in a blog post too :)
        
         | SideburnsOfDoom wrote:
         | I wouldn't say that MS "is moving" the .NET release cadence
         | "towards", it has been quite regular for the last few years
         | already: There is a major version every November, since 2020.
         | And every second one is Long Term Support (.NET 6 is LTS, and
         | .NET 8 will be)
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         | But yes, this is a "modern" cadence of small, frequent
         | releases, and it is expected to continue like that.
         | 
         | The table of releases with dates is here:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET
         | 
         | > I'd be interested in how the usage outside of Windows servers
         | 
         | If you're doing microservices, web services, queue processing,
         | etc in a .NET version >= 5.0, then hosting on containers or
         | Linux servers is common, even the norm. If you doing AWS
         | Lambdas or Azure functions then the host OS is "IDK, not
         | important, probably a linux"
        
       | francisofascii wrote:
       | Slow down. I feel like I just updated my projects from 3.1 to 6.
        
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