On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 05:55:20 UTC, Cliff wrote:
.NET suffers a similar problem in spite of the community's best efforts with Mono - it'll always be a distant 2nd (or 5th or 20th) on other platforms. And on Windows, C++ won't get supplanted by .NET absent a sea-change in the mindset of the Windows OS group - which is notoriously resistant to change (and they have a colossal existing code base which isn't likely to benefit from the kind of inflection point Apple had moving to a BSD and porting/rewriting scads of code.)
A bit OT: but Mono seems to be a popular platform for desktop application on linux. I have no idea why.
