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Re: My two cents ... again and again
by fred on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @21:14

>> Do you know why Windows is still tenfold more popular amongst developers than Linux and even Java?

Because most of the best applications and the most useful applications for users out there are written for Windows. And the users are not programmers, they will not care if about binary compatibility ;).

>> My second point is that ... we already have Java. We have .Net managed code

Use java to build a ultra-complex Graphical User Interface to achieve cross platform and avoid recompilation? Thanks, but no.

I have already had enough experience with it. Java is good for server-side applications and client side applications that don't need too much ultra-fancy painting capability. Java VM + bytecode interpretation will make your program slow as turtle (I don't care if people say Java is not slow anymore, my measurement still says Java *is* really slow)

>> Because Windows offer extremely *polished* desktop experience
Maybe true

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