Windows is a Ghetto

Re:Windows is a Ghetto by markessien on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @03:26AM (#347233)

Well, to defend windows, it's a very complex system that's used on a wide variety of hardware and for a wide variety of purposes. Most parts of it are required by someone or the other. If you don't need it, ignore it.

.NET is the clean-up of windows, I suppose.

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by swombat on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @03:37AM (#347236)

Someone should have told them that sewer water is no good for cleaning up a house.

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by markessien on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @04:28AM (#347259)

.NET is a pretty good framework. Better than any framework linux has to offer.

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by DarkShikari on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @06:55AM (#347329)

That statement doesn't even make any sense. Linux is a kernel. .NET programs are run in userspace. The two cannot, as far as I can tell, be even tangentially related, unless you're trying to call .NET some sort of kernel API?

Or is this that definition of "Linux" that people love these days, which is "whatever free software operating system distribution I happen to be most annoyed with this week"?

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by shawndrost on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @08:10AM (#347360)

"Linux" is used here as "a linux distro" (which was pretty clear). Is there a runtime for a linux distro that is better than .NET?

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by caustic on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @09:20AM (#347389)

java virtual machine?

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by shawndrost on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @12:58PM (#347624)

How is it better? (Genuine question, I mostly do web programming.)

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by shimi on Thursday October 30, 2008 @12:02AM (#348409)

The .NET is better then the JVM because it was designed to run on windows only, so no run anywhere stuff needed to be designed.

I was doing Win32 development for 5 years and concluded the .NET development is the best way to go (Only if you can convince the marketing guy to include the 20MB runtime installer in the package)

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by snprbob86 on Thursday October 30, 2008 @03:14AM (#348525)

Silverlight 2.0 runs C# code (any MSIL compiled code, really) on OS X quite well... It also includes a significant portion of the base class libraries.

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Re:Windows is a Ghetto by astrec on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @09:37AM (#347395)

Do you mean runtime or framework? And better by what measure?

In any event, you'll find Gemstone's kit more than accounts for .NET (and Java, for that matter) in the trade/financial space.

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