On 2/11/2011 1:03 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Feb 11, 11:13 am, JP <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From a developer perspective, they've got something going with Qt, >> both on Symbian and Maemo. I've checked it out and I liked what I saw. >> Qt is good stuff and some of it is superior to what we get in Android, >> and they have focus. Now devs are looking at WP7 and everybody's >> pretty appalled. > > I'll take your word for it. But programming in C# is *not that bad*. > Yes, I know there are those who really thrive on C and think > everything should be in it.
I'm totally not saying that C# is completely bad, or even that WP7 is bad. C# is NOT available on Android or iPhone as something approaching a native solution, and so C# isn't even on the table. (There are ways to code in C# on Android, including an Android-mono port, but the minimum app size ends up in the 10-15Mb range -- was talking to a WP7 phone developer about this on Reddit the other day [1]). And the key point is that my games are written in C++ and Lua, and I can build them for iPhone, Android, and Windows. Mac, Linux, and WebOS would be trivial ports as well. C# can't give me that. And WP7 being good is irrelevant. A dozen different computer OSs were better than PC-DOS. "Beta" tapes were demonstrably better than VHS. The history of technology is littered with the corpses of "better" technology that died because of a more popular but "inferior" tech. This is often caused by the so-called "network effect" [2], where the more people who use a product, the more valuable it is. WP7 has to overcome a HUGE deficit in mind share and market share in order to be a contender, and I predict that it won't happen. Tim [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/fdq0d/warning_to_game_developers_making_a_wp7_game/c1fkckh?context=3 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
