General Q on VB Net from VB person

Well, everyone has their opinions on what the best language is. If we brought C/C++ into the mix we'd have a chaotic mess of opinions, rants, raves and arguments, yet when it comes down to it no one would probably ever win. I probably went a little to far with the Java arguments as that doesn't seem to be what your core question is, which seems to be "is it worth the time invested in going to VB.NET from VB6?" The answer to this is fairly obvious; yes. I can't think of any sane person who would say otherwise. I'll leave it at that. :)
 
I was actually referring to the JIT built in to most JVMs. This link should help understand what I was saying. My overall point was just that Java, sans a Swing UI, is fast and that "interpreted" is kinda misleading in the traditional sense of "interpreted," since it is compiled (you conveniently use the word 'produces' instead) into bytecode. It really doesn't matter, we seem to agree on the main points.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/jit/

Yaminz, there was a time when I would say the same thing about Java, and those folks who continue to say that probably haven't taken the time to dig as deep into the architecture of .NET, where they'd quickly learn it's superior. Not sure if your friends fall into this category, but there are many folks out there that simply have a bias against Microsoft, so much so that they can't admit when they finally get it right, which is the case with .NET.
 
quwiltw said:
I was actually referring to the JIT built in to most JVMs. This link should help understand what I was saying. My overall point was just that Java, sans a Swing UI, is fast and that "interpreted" is kinda misleading in the traditional sense of "interpreted," since it is compiled (you conveniently use the word 'produces' instead) into bytecode. It really doesn't matter, we seem to agree on the main points.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/jit/
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*scratch* Never seen this before. Maybe I'm not reading it correctly, but it sounds like a seperate download from the normal JVM and it's only for Solaris? If that's the case, it doesn't sound very promising. :( If I'm not reading this correctly and it comes with all JVMs, then I find this interesting indeed since I never knew Java to have a JIT compiler.
 
Sun's documentation sucks but as antecdotal evidence, in IE go to Tools-> Internet Options-> Advanced and scroll down to Java and see where you can enable JIT? That's the microsoft VM not sun's.
 
It may just be the idealist in me peeking through, but I do. The OpenSource community will bring it to Linux and as a result all the *NIXes which is one huge set of platforms, then, in my mind, what's left is Mac, which with their unix underpinnings shouldn't be that big of leap. My guess is that it won't be long (1-2 years) before their's a .NET Framework available for most popular platforms. As far as vender independent, not sure what you mean?
 
The Mono project has come a long way. I am told it is even compiling and running simple windows forms applications now.
 
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