Mono has become a well supported system (sponsored officially by Novell) ( http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page)
.NET apps can be run reliably on Linux, Mac OS, Unix, Solaris, and of course Windows, provided you are targetting a version of the framework supported by Mono. The .NET CLR is open... anyone is free to take it and create a VM (or whatever) for any platform you want. There may be others out there besides Mono for other platforms. You can now write Python against it. In fact, there are many, many languages available to choose from: http://www.dotnetpowered.com/languages.aspx give you just a sampling (I'm sure there are more out there). The .NET platform has achieved quite a bit along the lines of platform/language independence. No matter your _language_ of preference is, chances are you can write code against .NET. No matter your platform of choice, chances are you can run .NET apps on it. :-) On 1/31/07, Chris Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Ryan Gahl wrote (31/01/07 14:29): > > OK, sorry for that statement. You know... there's that whole platform > > bias thing again. > > .NET has a platform bias. The other development environments mentioned > run on a variety of platforms, while running .NET on non-MS platforms is > not especially well supported (forgive me if I'm out of date here). > > My bias is towards software that I can run without caring what the > operating system is. Hence, for example, a preference for Firefox, > Thunderbird, Vim (how does anyone live without it?), javascript etc. > > I still don't like Java much, though. > > Chris > > > > -- Ryan Gahl Application Development Consultant Athena Group, Inc. Inquire: 1-920-955-1457 Blog: http://www.someElement.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
