palindrone

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   by palindrone 12y ago

   No. Because making anything complex that works on many platforms is very hard work. Take a look at WhatsApp (recently bought by Apple for $19 billion).
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   by palindrone 12y ago

   > Having lots of languages available is nice ... .NET's C# and F# are actually the only choice. C# is old and at most slightly better than Java 8. F# is somewhat better (much more concise) but still behind Clojure, Scala, Frege, etc
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   by palindrone 12y ago

   JVM runs on wider range of hardware. JVM compiler is faster than .NET equivalent. JVM has more programming languages tagetting it. these languages have much more mature libraries. Some of them run on .NET, but almost none of the languages f
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   by palindrone 12y ago

   I agree, but what can I do. If you want larger client platforms coverage this "worse" becomes actually better. I don't like WEB stack also, but HTML is the best x-platform GUI technology right now. Evey system has a web brows
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   by palindrone 12y ago

   "Java is no one's first choice for writing desktop UIs, whereas .NET is standard for business applications" From my PoV neither Java nor .NET is the first choice for UI. HTML and JS is. Especially for large multi-million doll
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   by palindrone 12y ago

   This movie is full of BS.