News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8. Parent comment

Re:No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 by joelhaasnoot on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:35PM (#4020693)
Know of a few programs that went from Java to C# a few years ago.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 by gouranga on Thursday May 24, 2012 @06:09PM (#4020846)
Same.

That says something about the portability and consistency of Java, rather than the ability of c#.

The reverse is not possible due to the platform lock in.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 by reinhardt on Thursday May 24, 2012 @06:58PM (#4021024)
I'd expect Mono to be adequate for teaching purposes at least.
[ Parent | on HN ]