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Re:HLVM -- the High-Level Virtual Machine by Todd on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:17PM (#1129725)
The virtues of the CLR are (rightly) extolled for Windows, then the lack of the CLR on Linux/OS X is cited as one justification for the HLVM. Mono is alive and well on those two platforms (notwithstanding hate from the GNU/Stallman camp).

Not to start another thread, but I agree with his point on WPF being a generation ahead of similar technologies on other platforms. I hope we see work start on that at some point for Mono (running on OpenGL, for example).

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Re:HLVM -- the High-Level Virtual Machine by amock on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:36PM (#1129787)
How is WPF a generation ahead of what OS X has? I haven't used WPF since 3.5 came out, but it didn't seem to offer anything better than what Cocoa offers. I think it's much better than Qt, but Qt has to make sacrifices to be cross platform, so it's a different kind of framework.
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