Arrgh! Never though I would say this (Ciberthug, you would like this)

[Cander]

I finally have a reason to go back to Linux. I saw Borland Kylix(Delphi on Linux) running at a friends house and I was impressed beyond belief. If you havent seen it yet Ciberthug, you outta check it out. Pretty sweet. Time to dust off my old Red Hat machine and update it. :p

I will still use VB, but now I have something new to play with to make powerful Linux apps too.

I feel as if I have betrayed my VB collegues. :D

[CiberTHuG]

Yes, the dark side is quick and seductive. :>

Nah, you haven't betrayed anyone. VB has its place (elementary learning, quick simple RAD, pretty shell scripts).

I wonder how much of a problem you will have porting these Kylix/Delphi apps. That is my big complaint against VB, it is very platform constrained.

[Cander]

Apparently it is fairly easy to port. They have something called the CLX which I think acts sorta like Visual Studio .NET's CLR and the only things thast wont port are , of course, com, ado, and active x.

[Jethro]

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Yes, the dark side is quick and seductive. :>

Nah, you haven't betrayed anyone. VB has its place (elementary learning, quick simple RAD, pretty shell scripts).

I wonder how much of a problem you will have porting these Kylix/Delphi apps. That is my big complaint against VB, it is very platform constrained.

Apparently no problems, LA does his work on Wintel then ports to Linux fairly quickly.

Check out vb.net, meant to be OS independant.