Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 4th Feb 2004 05:34 UTC
According to statistics, Java continues to have the crown of the most used VM-based platform in the industry. However, Microsoft's C# and .NET gain ground every day. While C# might or might not overcome Java in the following years, the fact remains that more and more programmers want the choice of C# among their developer tools. So, where does this situation leave Apple?
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.NET is nothing but lots of matketing,
Don't get me wrong, C# is a nice lang, but it is still essentially the same as Java (perhaps w/ more syntactic sugar).
There are many alternatives that apple could choose to support. Being that OS X is Based on unix it already has way more, and IMHO way better, delelopment tools at it's disposal. If you need proof then I will defer you to the 3rd chapter of the "pragmatic programmer" for an explination of why.
Speaking of the statistics, at what rate are people moving away from proprietary solutions and toward open source ones? Perhaps apple is in a better position then the author gives them credit for...