[Gambas-user] Gambas has competition now

[Hamish Robertson]

Sure..all good points rob..but mono is cross platform.

How hard would it be to make GAMBAS truly cross platform?

If we could access the windows userbase it would help in GAMBAS take-up for
sure.

H.


On 18/03/2008, Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...> wrote:
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> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/03/17/monodevelop-1-0-officially-released
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> ( http://xrl.us/bhs3j in case the link breaks )
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> The fruits of Novell's unholy alliance with Microsoft have finally
> reached 1.0, making it the second Free BASIC IDE with GUI designer to
> reach production status (after Gambas), and the first with the
> promise of cross-platform abilities.
>
> I don't think I would touch this with a ten foot pole due to the
> likelihood that Microsoft will start looking for money from Mono
> developers in a couple years, SCO-style, but I have no doubt that
> some organizations will use it.  I also just think that Gambas as a
> language is better designed than VB.NET, let alone C#.
>
> I also think that anyone who is contributing or plans to ever
> contribute to the Gambas IDE, compiler/interpreter or components
> should refrain from downloading MonoDevelop.  It seems likely to me
> that Microsoft or one of its sock puppets would someday try to use
> that as evidence that Gambas developers were ripping off MonoDevelop
> or Mono in general.
>
> Something to keep in mind.
>
> Rob
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