forebrain: Did I miss something? Archives
This is a long read, but worth reading as well as following up on the threads (Alan Cox of Linux fame weighs in on it).
The bottom line is that .NET and it’s publicly available counterpart MONO promise language independent programming: code in the language you are most comfortable with or that suits the task and get a portable, OS-agnostic program.
I dunno. It seems like there have to be some hidden compromises in there somewhere.
I thought this was cool enough.