Is there any future?

Originally Posted by theCaller

Saying ".NET is completely useless" for it is not portable, is a sad way of consider things: even win32asm is not portable... So what?, here everyone is happy with it, right ?

That's not really the point I was thinking about. Highly optimized and low level machine dependent code is always fast, but not portable. High level language code is slower but also more portable. Code running inside virtual machines is very slow, but also the most portable.

Hovever, .NET combines this in a completely wrong way: It is not portable and it is slow like hell.