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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: You can develop desktop apps in Mono

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-04-07 21:39.

I have an athlon@600mhz and 128 megs of ram and even a text editor takes a huge amount of memory and cpu when using Java, haven't tried Mono. Python apps take longer to load, run quickly on the terminal and slow down my system considerably in a GUI. C++ apps run fine but take up much more memory than C. OCaml apps seem to be somewhere in between C++ and C.

I would be willing to use a system where most apps were C++ or OCaml. Python, Perl, etc when/if Parrot gets released, once computers are a bit faster too. I don't see the point of Java or C# since they are slower than C and harder to code in than many other languages. They don't seem to have any special features other than built in marketing.

If someone wrote a fast video decoder or encoder for something like mpeg2 in Java, I would change my mind. Or if gcj supported everything available in Java. But I'm fairly sure I don't need programs that are cross-platform because they can't be compiled.

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