Since there is no real non win32 .NET OS in the picture, there is no real hurry anyway.
What would be the advantages of FPC compiling for .NET in your opinion?
.NET is not only for Win32! (AFAIK .NET for Linuxes is in development too.)
For example, I have the PDA. On this PDA is OS WinCE.NET. When I have program for .NET, then I can run this program on my WinXP and on my PDA too. (without any recompilation!) yes, I tried this and it really working!
And what about new 64-bit processors?
FPC can compile programs for Win32 with i386 processors. But what about new IA64 processors? I cannot use FPC for this! :-(
Now look to FPC features:
Support of FPC for WinCE platform? Not! What about ARM/XSCALE processors? NOT! What about new 64-bit processors from intel or AMD?
ARM and x86-64 are under construction. iA64 will follow as soon as it's important.
NOT!
FPC is not usable for this platforms and processors. When FPC can compile to .NET, then you can create programs for all this platforms. it is IMHO very big advantage!
And what about next advantages of .NET? What about lot of existing code in .NET framework?
What about combining sources from another languages? You can create program, where part is written in C#, part is written in VB.NET... and part is written in pascal? it is not advantage?
The last time when I investigated .NET I found out that the creation of a .NET FPC release would be rather complicated because of MS licenses. The only solution would be to use mono but mono isn't ready to use yet.
My personal opionion is: I won't support creating another MS monopol by implementing .NET. More than 100 Sorbig mails per day and at least every minute an attack by lovescan are simply too much :)
But if someone is interessted, creating a .NET backend for FPC shouldn't be that hard.
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