<div dir="ltr"><div>I didn't see MS propaganda about CLR being compatible with linux. Maybe because linux users are not their primary audience. Care to give a reference (I'm not teasing, I'm really curious to see where they brag about it).</div>
I'm not saying that the CLR is a panacea for cross-platform development, but I'm saying it is a viable option.<div>Is C/C++ easy to get cross-platform (hint: dir.h, hint2: take a look at some boost source)? Among the current solutions, it doesn't seems to me like a bad choice. And indeed it does seems better to me than relying on WINE.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I used Java a bit for linux+windows projects. I see no reason to believe dotNet would be significantly worse than Java for cross platform development.</div><div>But I'm writing that out of ignorance I didn't actually develop cross platform apps with dotNet.</div>
<div>Anyone care to enlight me? Which difficulties did you run into when writing cross platform applications in dotNet?</div><div>Please note, difficulties arose when porting badly written C# code so that it'd work with linux as well is not relevant. What I'm seeking is problems arising when written a dotNet program with linux in mind in the first place (so, no, I won't be using pinvoke, thanks for letting me know).</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Oron Peled <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oron@actcom.co.il">oron@actcom.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Monday, 28 בDecember 2009 12:12:20 Elazar Leibovich wrote:<br>
> Just a small remark. Using Silver(p?)light would be IMHO a much better<br>
> choice for cross platform support.<br>
> Currently Mono supports Silverlight 2.0, and its upcoming releases would<br>
> support much more.<br>
> Actually, a major benefit of the CLR environment is its cross platform<br>
> support due to Mono.<br>
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</div>Believing and quoting Microsoft propaganda, is naive at best.<br>
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Some testing and reading would show you the bitter truth.<br>
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