OpenEuphoria

Re: About .NET

• Posted by Philip Deets <philip1987 at hotmail.com> Aug 02, 2004
• 581 views

Jonas Temple wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> My feeling is that we can continue to code Windows Euphoria programs
> for quite some time and they should run fine when MS moves to a ".NET
> only" programming environment.  Unless I've misinterpreted the signs, I
> can't really see any compelling reason to go to all the trouble of
> creating Euphoria.NET.
> 
> <snip>

Microsoft will probably never move to a .NET only programming environment 
for reasons of backward compatibility.  However, eventually the current
DLLs will probably not get many new features.  All the new things coming
out (like ViewPort3D control that lets you place 3d content on your window
as a control) will only be supported with .NET.

Also the new WinFS file system (Longhorn's NTFS replacement) will be use the
.NET programming environment.  All you can do with unmanaged code on it
will be what you can do now (create files and folders), not the new stuff
(like use the file system as a database).

So basically there is no compelling reason to switch.  It just would be
really cool.

Phil