-Every language that has ever existed has been successfully ported to .NET 7.6 SP3.
-Mono is still working on .NET 4.3 SP1.
-Steve Jobs dies of cancer and without proper, solid leadership, investors get scared and dump the stock. MS pounces and buys Apple for a measly $5.4bil.
-Upon this mess of integrating Apple+MS, MS announces new .NET predecessor. Mono cries.
-2020 is announced as the year of the Linux desktop (which, surprisingly, has 30% market share).
-/prog/ has changed nothing.