[Lazarus] *SPAM* Re: Win 10 IOT Core

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/20/2015 02:22 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Silverlight is discontinued.
>
To me this is the death of .NET.

Silverlight was the only excuse to call the CIL runtime ".Net 
Framework". In fact, to me, Silverlight was the only reason to consider 
".Net", because deploying a browser-plugin - in the moment it is to be 
executed -  needs to do this in an architecture and OS independent way, 
and needs for running the stuff in a "managed" environment. Here, CIL 
does make sense as it runs complex applications that way with 
close-to-native speed. (If course Java can do the same, but for obvious 
reasons M$ wanted to fight Java). Of course it's nice to be able to 
deploy such a plugin unchanged for local use, but in a local 
environment, native code deployment usually can easily be done. (An for 
those who think different, Java/Dalvik has taken it all, anyway).

It's really funny to see how the M$ marketing loves the word "Net", 
calling the (technical named CIL) perfectly normal virtual processor 
runtime-environment ".NET" and renaming plain old embedded computing 
"Internet Of Things", even though (or right because) Linux always 
technically was preferable in networking, while Windows for a long time 
was the better choice for desktop computing

-Michael