32minutes of me at Qcon talking on Visual Studio 2010, VB, F#, .NET 4.0, Parallel, Azure
Back in March I presented at Qcon 2009 in London which is a great conference although I had a little moan (Does Microsoft smell?). I also was interviewed which is now up on InfoQ. TBH – it isn’t a bad interview yet at the time it felt awful right from the first moment when after agreeing the opening question before the camera rolled, I got asked something completely different :-) Then it went pretty broad :-)
You can watch the video on the InfoQ site which includes a transcript.
(Above is a link not an embed)
The questions I was asked were:
- Eric, what's going to be coming up in .NET 4.0 Visual Studio 2010?
- You’ve mentioned Visual Basic - there is an impression that I've personally heard in the software development environment that Visual Basic is not really at the same level as languages with curly braces like C# or Java. What's your perspective on that?
- You've also mentioned F# as being one of the new in the box languages for .NET 4.0. Is that also a part of the co-evolution? Is it going to start off with the same feature set?
- What would you like to see in future versions of .NET beyond 4.0? Where do you think the focus should lie?
- You mentioned the Parallel library, which is upcoming in .NET 4.0. Can you describe that more detailed?
- One of the other things which you mentioned is Parallel and there is also the existing LINQ. Is there a way to combine the 2 of those?
- You've mentioned F# as an upcoming language, the inclusion of VB.NET and C#. You've only had a brief mention of C++. Is that losing its focus?
- What exactly is Cloud Computing?
- Can you tell us a little bit more about Azure?
- How does Azure compare against other Cloud offerings that are in the marketplace, such as the Amazons, for instance?
Enjoy