>> Its only on windows. Its NOT a Kylix Killer :)
>
> Yet. If it compiles to bytecode then there's nothing stopping Micro$oft
> from doing what Sun did with Java all those years ago. IE: distribute VMs
> for different operating system/platforms.
True, but from what I have seen, its NOT platform independant - you need
Win32 in there somewhere, hence why MS paid Corel a lot of money to do a
.net environment for Linux.
Still, compiled code (Kylix) vrs 'terp'ed code. The languages are designed
by the same person tho (the delphi architect who "defected" to MS for about
$3mil + salary)
And if porting a VM is easy, why havn't they done it with VB? It just used a
VM for a very long time.
> The biggest problem I can see
> with that though is that M$ has gotten itself almost uniformly hated by
> users of most other platforms, so they don't have the good-will
> (or at least
> lack of ill-will) that Sun did when they released Java.
yeha, now everyone just realises that Sun are lousy code writers, and
everyone uses the IBM JVM's :). That'd never happen with MS, 'cos they would
never open the file formats of VM source up....
> Regardless, it's still not going to kill Kylix in exactly the
> same way that
> Java failed to kill Delphi/Builder/etc. It's just another alternative.
Exactly. And IMO, not an exceptionally good one. But thats IMO, and I'm a
Java nut :) (which for me, HAS killed Delphi)
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