Just to clarify, .net IS part of the Vista API.
Just to enlighten us. Which .NET? 1.1? 2.0? 3.0? will it be better to support DIRECTLY the .net, and take profit of the .NET run-time compiling? the answer is obviously YES.
Postulate. Why is the answer obviously yes? It doesn't seem particularly obvious to me. Does this means that users will have to download the .net framework? the anser is NO, if they use windows vista.
Which I'm sure is nice for the 20 or so people who have Vista. For everyone using XP SP2 the answer is YES, and for everyone using anything else the answer is go fuck yourselves. So programs would be runable directly from a CD? Yes.
They are already runnable from a CD. Ok, but programs will be slower? NO
Well Neverwinter Nights 2 certainly is. Please elaborate under what possible scenario a JIT compiled binary is ever faster than a natively compiled one. But woud it be cross platform compatible? Yes, MONO is the MAC and LINUX implementation for the .net framework.
So when are we getting blide for Linux and Mac then? If it's as simple as you seem to indicate that wouldn't be difficult at all, would it? It covers 100% of the .net 1.1 framework, and it is being improved to cover .net 2.0 in a few months.
Which is absolutely useless as Vista ships with 3.0 and like 2.0 it is not immediately backwards compatible. as long as the source code doesn't include Os speciffic API calls.
What application could you possibly write in .Net that doesn't use specific API calls? I think .net or MONO is the way to go...
I think Java is a better bet. Not only has it been out longer (and thus more throughly tested), it's also more widely adapted.Well actually I think BlitzMAX should keep generating native code as long as humanly possible. I'd rather have a cross compiler than a .Net one.