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
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 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.
Apparently no problems, LA does his work on Wintel then ports to Linux fairly quickly.Quote:
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.
Check out vb.net, meant to be OS independant.