Re: The future of C# is at risk

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

Rico Secada wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:24:54 GMT
> anon@anon.org (anon) wrote:

>>> 2. Very few projects exists on Sourceforge and Freshmeat compared to
>>> other languages like C++, Java, Python and others.
>>>
>>> Only 92 projects on Sourceforge.net and 57 on Freshmeat.net.
>>
>> 2. Most Ada projects are not for open source community and will 
>> never be archive at any open source archiving site, such 
>> as sourceforge, etc.
>>
>>
>> Looks to me that you need to do a lot more research before wrtting 
>> your paper.
>>
> 
> Actually, it looks to me like you have just proven my point.
> 

The biggest problem is that C# lacks free support on all platforms.
There is only really one Open Source compiler and runtime
infrastructure with thriving support. It also lacks several
important features on a variety of platforms.
Mono has essentially two^H^H^Hone sponsors^H. Implementations
are revolving around VMs ported to Novell's SuSE Linux.
Major database systems have been announced to be gradually replaced
by VistaDB. You cannot hope to be porting high security
applications to a variety of platforms without buying
a proprietary C# compiler.
Conslusion: Therefore, the future of C# is at risk!

I know this comment isn't obviously construtive.