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Is cross-platform development important to you?

January 22, 2009, 5:04 AM PST

Takeaway: Justin James is curious to know how many developers are actually writing code to be used across multiple platforms. Take the poll to share how important cross-platform development is to you.

The Mono project was recently updated to better help .NET developers target other platforms; and it’s been said that Java’s cross-platform compatibility has improved too. These developments expand the reach of .NET and JVM languages and frameworks. Other languages like PHP, Ruby, and Perl have been extremely portable for a long time. However, I wonder how many developers are actually writing code to be used across multiple platforms.

Is cross-platform development important to you?

J.Ja

Disclosure of Justin’s industry affiliations: Justin James has a working arrangement with Microsoft to write an article for MSDN Magazine. He also has a contract with Spiceworks to write product buying guides.

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open office and Java

Jaqui 11th Feb 2009

The "wizards" and auto-formatting of documents are java applets for open office.

The reason it is often seen as a java app, Sun's Star Office is now currently a "proprietary" version of open office. It's the Sun Microsystems and Star Office connection that causes the java association.

I refuse to use open office because of it's ( limited ) requirement for java to enable full functionality.

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Open Office sure has C++ content

adeyemi.opeoluwa@... 11th Feb 2009

Hi,

The stability of this office suite shows the power and character of a product produced using C++. I have always been a C++ proponent, but many shy away from this language because of its demand: that you mange memory and its lack of tolerance for errors.

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Is programming in C++ dying?

adeyemi.opeoluwa@... 11th Feb 2009

Hi Justin,,

I just read your comments on C++ being difficult to manage in terms of software development, on one side I do agree with you as the syntax of the language does not permit for the minutest omission like Java , but it is sure faster and more secure because it hates errors.
I see these days that a lot of new languages have developed or would I say evolved. But I am sure most evolved out of c/C++ language construct.

In my opnion, C++ is good if you are developing a software or writing a back end that needs an error free routine.

I haven't tried my hands on C# but have tried a bit on Java and VB6. What I do see is that it is a matter of choice and end- i.e what product do want to produce

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