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The People Behind Quanta Plus

Posted by michael on from the quanta-is-nifty dept.

anonymous writes "In this fascinating interview, Eric Laffoon and Andras Mantia give us a glimpse into the world of the Quanta Plus project. Read on for everything from tantalising references to Kommander, billed by Eric to be part of the foundations for the next generation desktop and user experience, to details of future plans for Quanta VPL (Visual Page Layout)."

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  1. Re:The real killer app... by miguel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What you describe was in the minds of a lot of people in the Gnome world back in 2001. There was a project by Havoc and Owen called "The Hub", which was aiming at creating an object Hub for all the different object systems. Allowing everyone to talk to each other.

    Then Microsoft published the .NET Framework, which many of us see as a "hub" for object integration: integrate old apis through P/Invoke or runtime support. Languages like C++ are supported directly through native compilers, and a common set of rules helps other compilers generate code that interoperates.

    Look at http://www.go-mono.com/rationale.html for some of the early motivations for the project.

    Today there are nice bridges for Perl and Python that allow them to consume objects from .NET.

    Miguel.