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Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils?

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On 11/9/2011 12:11 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 11/3/2011 6:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 11/2/2011 11:53 PM, BGB wrote:
>>> On 11/2/2011 3:35 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 11/2/2011 6:26 PM, markspace wrote:
>>>>> On 11/2/2011 3:01 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>> You could say that is not bad, but Java certainly has
>>>>>> its challenges in the cellphone market.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't know about this. Java seems to be doing well under Android. I
>>>>> think its major challenge is that Apple insists on running their own
>>>>> proprietary stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Neither iOS nor WP supports Java. Only Android.
>>>>
>>>
>>> yeah.
>>>
>>> Android is C, C++, and Java.
>>> iOS is mostly C, C++, and Objective-C.
>>> Windows Phone is mostly C, C++, and C#.
>>>
>>> there seems maybe there is a pattern...
>>
>> Not really.
>>
>> Apps for Android is Java (with the possibility of using C/C++ for
>> certain things)
>>
>> Apps for Android is Objective-C
>>
>> Apps for WP is C# or VB.NET
>>
>> C/C++ is practically not used for apps - C/C++ is obviously used a lot
>> for OS, VM's etc..
>>
>
> but, the same code can be used for all these, whereas the "app" code
> would otherwise have to be almost entirely rewritten for each target.
>
> this may not matter as much if ones "app" is essentially just a GUI with
> a small amount of internal logic (not a lot that can be reasonably made
> portable between UI frameworks), but if non-trivial amounts of code is
> involved, then one is left having to fallback to C or C++...

But GUI is usually a very big portion of smartphone apps.

And if portability is a requirement then the solution is not C/C++
(I don't even think WP allows it) - it is PhoneGap and similar.

Arne

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Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:42 -0700
  Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 10:22 -0700
    Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:02 -0400
      Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 20:10 -0700
        Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 20:45 -0400
          Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 09:56 -0700
  Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:01 -0400
    Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-02 15:26 -0700
      Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:35 -0400
        Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 20:53 -0700
          Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 21:45 -0400
            Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-11-04 05:50 -0300
              Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:39 -0700
              Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 17:38 -0400
                Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-11-04 18:47 -0300
            Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 10:11 -0700
              Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-09 20:24 -0500
                Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 23:42 -0700

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