Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by MichaelGG on Sunday October 26, 2014 @11:50PM
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Yet on mobile, we go out of our ways to make things look and feel native, even if the web's being used.
The concept of run anywhere, from a code execution standpoint, is fine. That doesn't preclude using platform specific APIs to make the application better. Like using C# but targeting iOS's UI toolkits. Or using signals from a Mono application.
While MS may have certainly intended to fragment Java, the core concept of platform specific APIs isn't inherently a bad thing.
Also note that during this time, MS supported Windows on non-Intel architectures so I'm not sure about the x86 comment.
The concept of run anywhere, from a code execution standpoint, is fine. That doesn't preclude using platform specific APIs to make the application better. Like using C# but targeting iOS's UI toolkits. Or using signals from a Mono application.
While MS may have certainly intended to fragment Java, the core concept of platform specific APIs isn't inherently a bad thing.
Also note that during this time, MS supported Windows on non-Intel architectures so I'm not sure about the x86 comment.