Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

Miguel de Icaza <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.sweng
Organization Novell, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On C# and .NET:

> As such, the COM heritage tends to fade into the background.  The C#  
> language, in short, isn't as deeply or fundamentally tied to the .Net  
> APIs as you seem to believe.

In fact, Mono, the open source .NET implementation did not have COM
support until a two years or so.  We have been shipping C#-based
applications on Linux for 8 years without ever using COM.

We only implemented COM so we could speak to Mozilla's XPCOM and embed
it in our applications.

Miguel.

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