Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:35:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <428f8206-d4f7-4fe6-b93c-8f881b498be6@googlegroups.com> <52db211d$0$304$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:35:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="23730"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GYYz7efvogN+5ts1mFJ/46nlqBYc8CIY=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:glo/6tz7G0k0mXxSEEAuXKkf9KA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27349 On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:49:31 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > The other alternative I can think of is C# with the intention to do > Windows desktop apps. > This could well be a dead-end language unless Windows 9 is stunning enough to undo the damage caused by Vista and Windows 8. IMO this would also including providing the same unified API for all flavours of Windows 9, i.e. desktop, server, phone and tablet) so that an application program written for any of them will compile and run on the other others without needing any source code changes or conditional compilation features. I did and still do find it unbelievable that MS could have made such an obvious mistake as using different sets of APIs the three W8 flavours. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |