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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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