D vs. C#

Mon Oct 22 11:32:33 PDT 2007

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:19:30 +0300, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 3) gigantic runtimes needed

IMO it's better to have one copy of a gigantic runtime than having parts of it statically linked in every EXE, causing lots of repeating code in a product with lots of binaries (such as an operating system). .NET executables are much smaller compared to most native executables (where the runtime is statically linked) - so, knowing that .NET will only gain more popularity in the future, I find a one-time 20MB download preferred to re-downloading the same components with every new program. Now that Microsoft is including it in their new operating systems, Vista users will just benefit from a smaller download size.

-- 
Best regards,
 Vladimir                          mailto:thecybershadow at gmail.com