> really is no work.
I admit I haven't been keeping up with Mono, but are there lots of Mono
applications out in the world now?
> If you are using C++ (MFC or not) there are plenty of
> cross-platform toolkits to get you there will little effort.
Perhaps "little effort" is relative.
> If you aren't running everything at once then you have to spend
> time starting and stopping things, which slows you down. It seems
> to me anything that slows me down should be avoided especially
> when it can be easily solved by buying a new piece of hardware.
Do you leave the water running in your shower so you won't have to turn it
on before getting in?
I have no trouble turning things off and on as needed. It takes seconds of
my time within a day. Batch files make it very easy.
> You wouldn't advocate spending more time writing a faster web
> application when you can just throw more hardware at it and save
> money overall, so I think the same thing applies here.
Perhaps, but when it's my money, I may be a bit reluctant if I don't really
need it. I have been looking around this last week for new laptops, but sad
to say they're all Windows machines.
> I would hope most developers would be above that.
Really? What makes you think developers aren't susceptible to the same sort
of trend-setting that you find anywhere else?
> What about all the things it does that you don't want it do?
The number of things on that list is fast approaching zero.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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