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Re: Has anyone compared Cocoa and DOTNET?
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Re: Has anyone compared Cocoa and DOTNET?


  • Subject: Re: Has anyone compared Cocoa and DOTNET?
  • From: Andy Satori <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:11:49 -0500

I would also point out that Portable.NET (dotgnu.org) is already running on OS X, and I've got a .cs file spec for XCode if you want it. Mono is getting very very close to being usable on OS X, (go-mono.com). Both of these provide non-gui support on OS X, and if you are willing to go X-Windows (I'm not), limited GUI support.

Once they have a working environment, a Java like cocoa binding would be possible, and would leverage an enormous amount of Windows code directly to the Mac. :-).

(BTW, Mono includes an asp.net compatable web server and web service engine, I also have an aspx, asmx, ascx file spec for XCode too if needed)

Andy

On Jan 20, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

On 20. Jan 2004, at 13:52, Marc Weil wrote:

While you technically should be able to do this, Microsoft is trying
very, very hard to steer developers away from using Managed C++, [...]

An ECMA press release from october 2003:

By standardizing the syntax and semantics of a general purpose
binding for C++ and the CLI, Ecma TG5 will provide the huge C++
developer community with a tool that enables them to easily write
applications that make full use of the CLI platform [...]

Microsoft, working together with Edison Design Group and Dinkumware,
has developed and will submit full draft specifications of a binding
of the ISO/IEC 14882 Programming Language C++ to ISO/IEC 23271
(Common Language Infrastructure) in November 2003 [...]

More at http://www.ecma-international.org/news/ecma-TG5-PR.htm

My interpretation is that even though Microsoft may try to steer developers away from using Managed C++, they know that they need to support it badly -- this ECMA standard for "bindings" will probably replace their current set of C++ extensions.

[...] Now someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it slow
down the program quite a bit if the entire core of the program had to
be dynamically loaded from disk each time the executable was launched?

As opposed to what? have the "entire core of the program" placed in the executable and "loaded from disk each time the executable was launched"? ;)
--
Allan At Top-House Dot DK
http://www.top-house.dk/~aae0030/
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 >Re: Has anyone compared Cocoa and DOTNET? (From: "Glen Low" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Has anyone compared Cocoa and DOTNET? (From: Allan Odgaard <email@hidden>)

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