Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 29, 2005 10:36 PM
"Java is the easiest truly cross-platform (Windows, UNIX, and more) development tool for the broadest community to develop the most features with. There are more cross-platform libraries to build upon for Java than for the alternatives." Easiest? Highly debatable. The vast majority of people I have spoken to deem Java worse designed and harder to learn than Python. As for 'more cross-platform libraries' i'd like to see where you got your statistics. I found cross platform libraries for Java fairly scarce compared to those for Python.
"Those who claim Mono has some leg up *really* need to get real -- anything interesting much beyond what one could do in pure ANSI C++ (without extensions) requires Windows-only APIs that essentially require the entire Windows SDK or an emulation thereof." Heh, you really don't know what you're talking about, do you. Give the mono project more credit. Have you even read about the native Windows.Forms effort provided in the latest preview of Mono? Try creating GUIs and drawing onto widgets in pure ANSI C++<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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Re:Give me a break
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 29, 2005 10:36 PMEasiest? Highly debatable. The vast majority of people I have spoken to deem Java worse designed and harder to learn than Python.
As for 'more cross-platform libraries' i'd like to see where you got your statistics. I found cross platform libraries for Java fairly scarce compared to those for Python.
"Those who claim Mono has some leg up *really* need to get real -- anything interesting much beyond what one could do in pure ANSI C++ (without extensions) requires Windows-only APIs that essentially require the entire Windows SDK or an emulation thereof."
Heh, you really don't know what you're talking about, do you. Give the mono project more credit.
Have you even read about the native Windows.Forms effort provided in the latest preview of Mono? Try creating GUIs and drawing onto widgets in pure ANSI C++<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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