Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
On 2013-04-25 07:25, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Well, slow and memory hungry may be, but portability is achieved to
every .NET enabled platform.
WinForms is not 100% portable via Mono (last I checked). I wouldn't go
that route either because Microsoft will be on your case when it suits
them - and probably just when your product becomes successful.
Neither Mono nor DotGNU are implementations of whatever MS understands
as .NET. The closed source .NET library prevents to use non-MS
implementations for running .NET applications. CIL without .NET is less
than FPC without Lazarus (or msegui...), a VM without a RTL :-(
But it isn't true that the new IDE is written in .NET,
I didn't mean the whole IDE. Just parts: help system, editor, form
designer, language tool in editor (like what CodeTools is). But that
sure makes it about 70% of what an IDE is.
Failing to encourage this move will force most current Delphi coders to
use better supported development environments, most likely C#.
Java seems way more lucrative to me... The Java eco-system is massive,
and that also opens the doors to Android (which is also Java and the
biggest mobile platform). But that's just me thinking out loud.
In the Embarcadero groups I only read VS/C# as an alternative, nobody
claims to move to Java.
DoDi
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