[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Tethys]

Chris Ball writes:

>Don't forget that the CLR may support multiple source languages, but is
>only targetted at Windows.  You get all of this support for languages,
>but lose the ability to have supported targetting at Linux, or any kind
>of targetting at MacOS or Solaris.

True. This is something the free .NET implementations are just starting
to find out. A .NET implementation relies on a full implementation of
the Win32 API. The mono project is thus looking at having to incorporate
winelib just to get it working.

Tet

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