Linux blew its shot at becoming a real contender in the marketplace,
and Microsoft has the power to buy out or otherwise squash any technologies
that don't fit into its plans.
Personally speaking, I've only written a few test apps in NET so far
so I can't say much about performance other than its getting better. NET 2
showed a lot of improvement over the original and NET 3.0 is now out as
well. With the OS being geared up to handle NET natively and the Framework
getting richer all the time, it's going to become more and more attractive
to programmers no matter what language they prefer.
Another thing to consider is that all these other technologies sit
atop the Win32 API, and though Microsoft isn't planning on dropping it, I
have to wonder if they will continue to work on it...as it does need much
improvement. I guess only time will tell, but meanwhile I think it would
poor judgment on anyone's part to completely ignore NET if they intend to
continue coding for Windows!
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006
Proud to be a moderator of "The Delphi Lists" at elists.org
(["An unused program is the consequence of a higher logic!", nil]) As
written in The Compendium of Accepted Robotic and Surrlogic Theorems Used in
the Self Analysis of Elemental Positronic Pathways...1st Edition Revised
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On Behalf Of Jack
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 2:52 PM
To: delphi-talk@elists.org
Subject: Re[2]: Delphi - current status and future?
> No one can ignore the fact that NET is the future of Windows, and
I am yet to be convinced. With the improvement of rich web client
experience (AJAX, Flash, etc.) it's really hard to say. In the past
10 years it's pretty much Windows dominating the client platform.
In the next couple of years, web, MacOS and Linux will have their
significant share in client OS/platform, and neither of them have
much to do with .NET. (Yes, I know mono but it's not there yet, and
it's not backed by a large company ... yet and it's also playing
catching up - a game they are not supposed to win.)
Then, applications going web-centric, or to MacOS or Linux, is
not necessarily the best news for Delphi developers, either :)
> Microsoft has in its employ a great marketing machine making sure the
larger
> commercial clients will want to use it. That opinion, no matter what we
may
> think of it will trickle down to even the smallest customer. Even I, who
> only does work for very small businesses am being asked if my apps will
> provide them with the benefits of NET. And it matters not that they
haven't
> a clue what these benefits might be!
To be honest, I, who have developed applications with C# on .NET, don't
have a clue either :) In the end my company threw away the C# app
because of its poor performance and large memory footprint, and re-did
it in Delphi native code. Maybe some Delphi developers on .NET can
educate me a bit about the benefit from their real experiences. I
think it also largely depends on the type of applications.
Jack
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