Microsoft Project Midori (managed OS) blog posts

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Joe Duffy is running a series of blog posts about this previously secretive project.  The latest entry, http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/19/asynchronous-everything/, is quite interesting.  He has a few higher level intro entries prior to this one as well on his blog.

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[ben.c...@nomura.com]

 

 

Wow, that was interesting.  Thanks for sharing.

 

Let’s give Microsoft some credit.  Like Thompson/Kernighan/Ritchie et. Al. original creators of the Unix/C derived environments,  Microsoft is equally significant (historically) in both OS and Language build ambitions.  And, obviously, they are equally (if not more) successful.

 

Even though the combined Sun/BSD/OSF/Linux efforts over the decades did a great job of defining a “It’s all of us against Windows!” kind of battle-trenches on the OS wars’ front lines, it was indeed Microsoft that took the C/C++ programming language and taught the world how to use an IDE to operate with .C source code.  Visual Studio C++ … with indexed API, intellesense typing, integrating visual debugging, MFC library, etc. was mighty impressive (even though, I personally didn’t use it much).

 

Though they now prioritize C#, their devotion to embracing C/C++ was best.  Period.

 

If Joe Duffy’s team represets the current off-spring of that part of the Microsoft family tree, I am very interested to see what comes out of their dug-in,  top-secret ‘Async Everything!’ ambition. 

 

Will this project succeed? Who Knows. 

 

It’s more about the effort than the achivement.  :-)

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[Vitaly Davidovich]

To clarify a bit, Midori ended some time back, which is part of the reason Joe is able to blog about it now.  There was nothing "commercial" produced, so to speak, but the hope/idea is that lessons/techniques learned and their experience on Midori will carry over to their mainstream tech, such as their .NET and native toolchains, windows kernel, etc.

I agree that there was a time when Microsoft seemed to have been pushing the managed language/.NET agenda, but they've since refocused (at least that's my perception from outside) just as much, if not more, on the native side (more C++ than C).  They've also, as I'm sure most on this list have seen, become much more open with their software and embracing other tech stacks; this is particularly visible with .NET and CLR being open sourced and ported to other platforms (e.g. linux, os x).  So all in all, I give Microsoft a lot of credit for their fairly recent transformation.