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Originally Posted by JSimmons
But .NET requires 25mb of runtime.
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...and is a total nightmare if you're trying to interface it with a device/language that the .NET providers didn't foresee (spent a very miserable month making an already-built .NET system work with RS232 of all things... Problem was the original prototype was built by a hardware engineer who only knew VB - and the "powers that be" decided to just use the prototype as a "real product".)
If you need multi platform graphical support, have a look at wxWidgets. I've built graphical apps that (with an appropriate re-compile) work on Win, Mac, and Linux and are
not bloat-ware - and is easily connected with lower level modules.
And if you want fast-built multi-platform apps, there's Java (netbeans looks pretty good). BTW, netbeans and wxWidgets are both free. Beats me why someone would limit themselves with .NET other than "doesn't know any better" - or maybe "wants to get
really locked into the wintel world"
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