D vs VM-based platforms

[Anders Bergh]

Don't forget about PowerPC and IA-64. XNA lets you write games for the
Xbox 360 using C# and a custom C# Express IDE.

I think .NET is more of an effort to kill Java rather than replacing COM though.

On 5/3/07, Sean Kelly <sean at f4.ca> wrote:
> To be fair, Ms does target ARM as well, for its handheld devices.
> Though I wonder if those devices have a full .NET VM.  In any case,
> pre-generating binary code is obviously more efficient, so why not use
> it for a VM?  The original point of .NET is a COM replacement anyway,
> regardless of how things have been spun.

-- 
Anders