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How many platforms does C# run on, with runtimes available under which licenses, again? EDIT: Not defending Slack's choice of JS, or the consequences of that c

by rosser 9y ago

How many platforms does C# run on, with runtimes available under which licenses, again? EDIT: Not defending Slack's choice of JS, or the consequences of that choice on its memory footprint, CPU utilization, or excess consumption of my battery in any way, but it's not purely a matter of "which one is the most efficient/performant/whatever?".

mastax 9y ago
.NET Framework | Proprietary | Windows 98 or later .NET Micro Framework | Apache 2.0 | Win+Bare Metal .NET Core | MIT License | Win+macOS+Linux(x64+armhf) Xamarin | Proprietary | Android, iOS, and Windows mono | MIT License | Linux Mac OS X, iOS, tvOS, watchOS Sun Solaris BSD - OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD Microsoft Windows Nintendo Wii Sony PlayStation 3 Sony PlayStation 4 Of course "having a runtime" is not the same thing as "having a good way to write cross-platform applications".
- rosser 9y ago
  Thank you. Are those runtimes all bytecode compatible? Or is that another layer of developer cognitive burden that the more efficient/performant/whatever choice entails, atop the whole "having a good way to write cross-platform applications" tangle?
  - ihsw2 9y ago
    Nope but few (if any) platforms will accommodate such a demand. Xamarin will produce different bytecode from mono, for example.
    - mateuszf 9y ago
      > Nope but few (if any) platforms will accommodate such a demand. JavaScript does though, and it even doesn't need bytecode.