On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:33:47 -0700, "Michael L Torrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Looking around I just don't see a lot of commercial apps being shipped > in Java or .NET (VB.NET or C#). I didn't read anything in any of the > articles referenced that backed up this claim. So far as I know, MS > Office, Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, etc are all C++. I know of no major > commercial package (major defined as widely available and widely used by > consumers, not niche products) that is using WinForms or Java (except > for VS 2005 which apparently is sucking pretty bad).
If you were the manager of a project involving many millions of lines of code, like the ones you list above, and you decided to start from scratch in a new environment because that was "teh new hotness," you should be shot. Rewrites are expensive, even if the new target is a better one. The real reason you don't see any major desktop apps in C# or Java is that there aren't any major new desktop apps AT ALL. All the action is in the web space these days. -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
