Funny that you say that about the Oxygene language. To me the language
concept and marketing screams ".NET me too wannabe".
Remobj is one of the few companies that bring the cross-platform
features, and thus the promising future of CIL (aka ".NET" in Microsoft
speak) up to front. They, too, do use the term ".NET" instead of "CIL",
because otherwise 90% of the readers would not know what they are
talking about :( . But they do advertise that Oxygen can compile for
multiple OSes (using Mono bindings) and multiple processors (e.g. using
portable .NET bindings). If the user code is done in a way that all
bindings are possible (this can be checked with the SDK), the resulting
Assembly will run "everywhere". (At least this is what I understood.)
IMHO, CIL (".NET") is a really promising concept for the future of
computing. I just read about an "embedded" CIL Framework, done for a
deeply embedded CPU that is to be configured ("programmed") into an FPGA
(IMHO this is the future of deeply embedded Computing) and this
Framework does not even need an OS to run (but can take advantage of any
co-existing OS, says the article).
Provided that it's a lot easier to create a compiler for CIL than
creating it for multiple CPUs and OSes, IMHO, this is the way to go on
the long run. (But of course native code will widely be in use for
several years to come :) ).
-Michael
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