[Info-vax] redbean and the Actually Portable Executable

[John Dallman]

In article <t8qjkp$256$1 at dont-email.me>, seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
(Stephen Hoffman) wrote:

> Same as Oracle with Java, Microsoft would prefer CIR/CLR/.NET 
> everywhere and with Mono and VSC and ilk, whether they ever get 
> much traction?

They've achieved enough traction that they can't drop .NET, but it has
not become a dominant form of application development. They de-
emphasised it a bit in their following sets of ideas, but since those
also involved proprietary languages, and enforced Microsoft's ideas about
application design more strongly, they were less successful. 

Microsoft and Apple both seem to have got stuck on the idea that if they
can invent the perfect way of doing application development, they'll
suddenly win the computing industry. I have seen serious Apple developers
express bafflement at the limited take up of Apple methods: "They're
offering three new (and different) GUI toolkits! How can people not want
to use them?"

John