Evernote Abandons Microsoft .NET in Favour of Native Code

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If you remember some of my older posts, I understand the pain of VB developers when the whole VB6 train was thrown out in the cold. But VB6 did not have a wide enough or solid enough foundation to support a lot of things that are child's play with VB.Net. At some point, it had to go.

I'm not so sure. I believe that the reason why they abandoned VB6 was just because they wanted to create a Java-like platform and a new version of their OS based on that platform. As soon as .NET came out, MS started to deprecate the development of native programs, not because they were not as powerful as .NET software but for purely commercial reasons: they only wanted to beat Java and it didn't matter if millions of developers had to put thousands of lines of code in the bin. Today we all know that their project has failed miserably and the question is whether or not we should follow their next bet.

Delphi was extremely similar to VB6 and it has not died out. Why?

Now MS seems to take back what they said and I'm sure that, if you asked them what language to choose, they would tell you that .NET has no future so you can either address your attention to HTML5 or resume developing native code.