Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
I spend a good portion of my few spare cycles pondering C# and Mono. I
don't have enough of them to have reached any intelligent conclusion,
though :)
I am an (mainly Java) application's developer. When I develop one, I
want to be able to deploy to Windoze users also.
If I can compile my Java app to ANSI CLI "p-code", it's a lot easier to
deploy to Windows, since then there is no need for me to deploy ANY
other run time, so I just ship my application. So it's a smaller too.
(How I get this to work w/ WebStart... I duno YET! I assume Suse will
have CLI runtime built in also).
This way Harmiony may not need to have a "run-time" for Windowze, if it
moves up the food chain and only emits "p-code".
I wrote some GTK# (sharp) apps, and they are fine.
Well, I think that wrt trying to eliminate C++ and C, you've just moved
the problem elsewhere - because we'll still need a set of portable
intrinsics and bootstrapper, and C++/C are natural candidates.
That said, I would assume that properly architected, you could follow
the same pattern and build in the framework we devise a CLI using the
same techniques in C# used in Java.
I think that's interesting, and certainly would build a larger
community, but my personal interest is a compatible implementation of
J2SE.
Yes, must be compatible! (this way if somone OS has Java-compatible JRE
on it, I do not have to deploy the JRE. I would only deploy Harmony JRE
if they do not have one. X-Box/PlayStation + OpenGL for our 3D needs
;-). If Sun/JRockit /Apple cover it, not a huge need, unless HW
manafuctures want a better license )
Yes, I wish to minimize C/C++. Yuck. I used to teach both, those brain
cells now invoke gag reflex.
The native part is for run time, I have to remind self. I listed people
that solve cross platform development(Ex: Geko GTK+, OpenGL(like SWT).
The HTTP cross platform C is in wrong direction for us, it does not
touch GUI, and bolting it on I predict would be a blind alley).
Include a dll, .so and Cocoa libraries to be called via JNI, like SWT does.
Did I usee enought acryonyms?
Is there any more chances of haveing people that did Eclipse 3.16 on FC4
join Harmony in some way?
.V
