On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 13:40 -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > If you were the manager of a project involving many millions of lines of > code, like the ones you list above, and you decided to start from > scratch in a new environment because that was "teh new hotness," you > should be shot. > > Rewrites are expensive, even if the new target is a better one. > > The real reason you don't see any major desktop apps in C# or Java is > that there aren't any major new desktop apps AT ALL. All the action is > in the web space these days.
I agree. That's why I take issue with the idea that Swing is somehow widely used across the entire industry. I expect this to change over time, though. For now C++ (C too?) still reigns supreme in the win32 app space. I don't think the desktop apps are dead yet. > > -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
