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Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development

Posted by timothy on from the don't-fence-me-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Will Microsoft take advantage of .NET's Java-like CIL and allow .NET code to run on Windows 8, or force developers to switch to HTML5 Metro apps instead for porting apps to Windows 8? This article brings up important insights into both paradigms' advantages and disadvantages, and even correlates the options with Microsoft's past NT-era support of MIPS and PPC, as well as Windows CE's way of supporting embedded architectures."

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  1. Re:Ditch .NET, it's old already. by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Amusing. Only .NET has been meticulously maintained and updated at a reasonable pace and for many types (not all, of course) of development it is ridiculously the best choice.

    Now Java, there's a god damn piece of shit if ever there is one. I have to use it for some stuff and holy shit, could they be any more behind? I decided I'd think about using Java 7 and went and looked at what's new. Christ, was I sad and disappointed. Oh boy, I can do MyObject x = new MyObject(..). Wow! What an amazing breakthrough!.. in 2005.