Re: Dot net and all that
- From: "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:25:47 -0500
Actually I'm thinking more of me. I don't want to further embrace vb6 if
Microsoft have broken it. Or trust Microsoft that they won't do it again
(and again)
Oh. This discussion comes up periodically and people
often talk about switching to Delphi, RealBasic, etc.
I don't understand that logic. For the forseeable future,
VB is one of the best, most flexible ways to write software
on Windows. And for all practical purposes it has no
dependencies.
I don't mean to criticize other options,
like Delphi, but I wonder about the sense of changing
over before it's necessary. For me, at least, it takes a
long time to get proficient with a new tool. And in the
meantime, Vista has been a stunning flop ... The general
landscape is changing very fast ... It's unclear whether
3rd-party software will even be feasible on Windows,
down the line. How do we know that Delphi will be usable
for any longer than VB is?
Microsoft are clearly trying to talk a good game on
cross-platform "rich Internet software", while actually
working to lock Windows users into a convoluted mess
of Windows dependencies with .Net, Silverlight, etc.
The result they seem to be hoping for is a locked down
Windows OS with Windows developers writing
Silverlight trinkets for Live.com, etc. To my mind there's
no future of any kind on that sort of Windows OS.
.
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