Yeah, I keep remarking that I think that a proper AOT C# or Java is a game-changer, but I'm not sure if these languages will ever be able to shed the baggage of

Yeah, I keep remarking that I think that a proper AOT C# or Java is a game-changer, but I'm not sure if these languages will ever be able to shed the baggage of the very large frameworks that developed around them. But, I will also be very glad to be wrong. As for Kylix, I simply think that there was no way that it was going to work on Linux. IOW, trying to do a GUI-based development tool on Linux was a bad idea from the start. They couldn't even nail down a few distributions very well - it was a constant moving target...