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On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:16:55 +0300, Michael S wrote:

> AFAIK, .net is hugely successful application development technology that
> was never incorporated into lower layers of the OS.

Look up the infamous “Longhorn reset”. Microsoft had to chuck away a bunch 
of low-performance, high-overhead code and try again, and Dotnet was the 
reason. This delayed Windows Vista by about a year and a half, and it was 
still a rush to get it out.