The hell that is libc (Part 3: final)

[Count Zero]

 When pressed for additional details on what makes .NET better, de Icaza
replied: "The tools are better integrated. You have a debugger, a project
manager. It's an IDE with documentation integrated into the
system. It's very easy to deploy web services. You
write a web service and it's getting packaged into a
single directory. One of the things you can do is
just dump the directory into your system and it happens
to work. They have a signature system for their
libraries, so if you develop an application that links
into a set of libraries, even if somebody replaces
the API for the library, the application is going to
continue to run because it links to the original
library."

 He added: "Microsoft basically solved the DLL
problem, and that's something that the open source community
is not solving. Even though we have the tools to
do so, no one is taking the next step to do things right.
There's still breakage that's happening in
libraries that are shipping with traditional Linux libraries.
If you get the latest version of Linux, many
applications are going to break because they broke binary
compatibility, because you didn't upgrade your
application, because there's not a lot of effort going into
supporting third-party application developers. So
that's why I think .NET is a better application
development platform, right now." Visual Studio.NET is
"pretty sweet," he added.

Miguel is head developer of Gnome.
He had previously written Midnight Commander, etc...

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