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Story: .Net developers can write for Linux using Mono

Posted by: Gary Kind (Monday 10 May 2004, 8:22 AM)

I think its great, Im not particularly fond of some M$ stuff but its not a religion and Im not going to shun a technology just because M$ is involved somewhere. Ive been doing Delphi development for many years, Java is just not an option its too slow!!! Always has been and always will be, there are too many layers of abstraction, its object model is poorly implemented. The Delphi VCL has stood the test of time and guess what Anders Heijsberg who architected the VCL has also done the framework for .NET. Why have they both worked? Because he started with a blank sheet of paper and spend time *planning* the design, perhaps something Sun should have done so they wouldnt have to keep pushing out new releases every other week! Java sucks big time.