[lazarus] native Win32 Interface

[Marco van de Voort]

> only a hint (maybe is a stupid):
> if already you want a crossplatform api why don't you choose the .net 
> you could start a port of the ide on that ?

Because .NET is not cross platform. A lot of talk, and a lot of bla, but noone
has yet displayed an ordinary Visual .NET app that runs on something else
than a recent Windows NT version (not even '98)

There are a lot of 

> the (King)win32 api is dead .

Microsoft _pronounced_ it dead, but if .NET fails to catch on, that can
change any minute.

See Intel, that pronounced x86 dead already 3 times.

> In the apache logs i see something like ie60 .net clr .

That is because IE6 has .NET as a new virus procreation subsystem.

> The next delphi is called .Net not win32(or 64 hehe remember hammer...)

Only the cmdline compiler is .NET afaik.

> It's runing on linux too (sort of) the .net 

Not is it not. It has some .NET compiler where Icaza is playing with,
but the change that it will ever run a standard .NET windows app is below
zero.

> There is a pascal compiler for the net :component pascal 
> shure is not perfect but works ...even is spliting out java (my God)

We could build a C# parser into Lazarus. Will you stop using Visual Studio
.NET than?

No, because it isn't the real thing :-)

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Maybe .Net will be usable a bit cross platform, maybe not. But it is that
new and unproven that it is still a few years to early for this kind of
decisions.