not wishing to wade into the politics here but *useful* apps originally written in a VM have tended to get rewritten at some point in a native language due to not wanting the overhead of a VM.
This is true of java apps (EG c++ lucene) just as much as its true of mono (Gnote) or other VMs I personally see rewriting into native code as an optimisation where relevant On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 14:40 +0200, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote: > Dne 27. červen 2009 14:32 Raphael Bosshard > <[email protected]> napsal(a): > > Hello there, > > > > just to make think clear; I don't 'hate' Mono or despise its usage in any > > way. I just think that it would make sense to have some Mono-only libraries > > available for the whole Gnome-stack. > > > > Cheers, > > Raphael > > > > Sure, I agree with that. > > It is fine to port CLR libraries to make them usable in any language > (in case there is really a CLR library that has no equally usable C > replacement). It's porting an end-user app just make a showcase of it, > that I'm not happy about. > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
