On Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 12:56:12 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2012-08-22 06:32:29 +0000, "Paulo Pinto"
<[email protected]> said:
On Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 00:15:12 UTC, David Piepgrass
wrote:
Lets see how the improved COM (WinRT) turns out to be.
Sadly, WinRT is again intended to be Windows-only, so
developers like me that hate lock-in will avoid it in
preference for .NET (hi Mono!) and yucky old C.
Because UNIX systems are still in the stone age in terms of
ABI, as they
barely changes since the 70's and no one seems to care enough
to change things.
I like UNIX a lot, but got to know it, after knowing what is
possible in more advanced languages, so it always dismays me
that specially when dealing with most commercial UNIX it feels
like being in the 70's computing age.
So that lives only Apple and Microsoft with room for real OS
innovation in mainstream OS, and like any vendor they prefer
to look for solutions that fit only their OS.
Mac OS x is also UNIX, but Apple has been changing it already
quite a lot compared with the other vendors, hence my Apple
remark.
Actually, the difference is standardization. Microsoft's COM
and Apple's Objective-C runtime are built on top of C APIs (and
you can access them through C if you want, although it's a
little awkward). COM implementations and Objective-C runtime
implementations exist for other UNIXes too, as well as other
similar things, but no one is pushing them enough for them to
become a standard.
Yes, I have to agree.
Wasn't Taligent something in that direction?
--
Paulo
