D vs. C#

[Dave]

"Roberto Mariottini" <rmariottini at mail.com> wrote in message 
news:ffi95a$1ihb$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Making D compilable for the Java VM today would make it immediately 
> portable to tens of platforms (and hundreds of cell phones models), today.
>

Making a D to C translater for that might actually make more sense, given 
the design of D and that all of the platforms would likely have a C compiler 
available. Then all that would be missing would be ease of distributing a 
single set of bytecode. Then again, binaries couldn't be reverse engineered 
as easily as bytecode either.

In any case, GDC may have quite a few of those chips covered before either a 
D bytecode compiler or C2D was done <g>.

Do the standard Java GUI libraries work the same for all cell phones, or in 
general does each cell phone vendor have their own specialized library? 
Walter had a great point earlier as well -- Is Java really "write once, run 
anywhere" especially where GUI's are concerned? I recall a lot of complaints 
where some things tended to work differently depending on the VM / platform 
but maybe those cases are rare now-a-days.

> Ciao