The .NET API patent, mono, and GNOME

The .NET API patent, mono, and GNOME

Posted Jan 25, 2006 6:54 UTC (Wed) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: The .NET API patent, mono, and GNOME by zblaxell
Parent article: The .NET API patent, mono, and GNOME

How can we expect people working on *different languages* to produce compatible runtime code, without that code eventually sucking?

Fairly easy: the people interested in the languages do not produce the runtime code, they use the exisitng one (with clear specifications by ECMA and ISO) and produce only a compiler for their language.

Less work for language people, and less mess for everybody else. And BTW, their compiler does not need to be ported to any CPU architecture, it is the runtime that provides the JIT compiler (and also an AOT one if you want it).

Hopefully, we (runtime people) will provide a runtime that does not suck ;-)

At least this is the .NET vision of things (which, incidentally, is in practice also the Parrot one, even if IMHO .NET and Mono are more mature now).

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