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I'm happy for them, but I'm not going to risk it. The reward is nice but not nearly worth the risk. When adopting Java, you can trust it will just work, but wi
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
I'm happy for them, but I'm not going to risk it. The reward is nice but not nearly worth the risk.
When adopting Java, you can trust it will just work, but with Mono you have to bet it's going to work, you're not going to run into compatibility problems and tooling will be adequate.
- jackalope 14y agoJava comes with its own problems, especially in enterprise environments where you might be pinned to a single version. There are plenty of insecure JVMs out there that can't be upgraded on both servers and clients, mainly to ensure compatibility or meet support requirements.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI don't see how it is relevant WRT considering a language/platform for a new project. You're talking about legacy stuff. I don't see how this can't happen to project in any language (PHP? Ruby? Perl? C#?)