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<blockquote data-quote="arkay" data-source="post: 88298" data-attributes="member: 21543"><p>In terms of porting and WPF etc is it not counter intuitive to attempt to emulate a Windows API to gain functionality in Linux?</p><p></p><p>To my way of thinking, if you are writing a client, the only thing you need to get right is the interfaces to the server.</p><p></p><p>It makes sense to use what is portable between the two (a.k.a the skins themselves etc), but how you choose to render them in linux and indeed what the client is written in should be totally independant of the windows version?</p><p></p><p>Mono is a smart choice if it truly tanslates to .net but I think there is too much emphasis these days on the language used as apposed to the code written.</p><p></p><p>For instance mono may be good, it may be a perfect .net clone but I would assume that the API's and classes supplied by MS are NOT available as equivalents in linux.</p><p></p><p>My point is "lets not try to bring windows to linux", rather lets make linux work for us.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p></p><p>Arkay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arkay, post: 88298, member: 21543"] In terms of porting and WPF etc is it not counter intuitive to attempt to emulate a Windows API to gain functionality in Linux? To my way of thinking, if you are writing a client, the only thing you need to get right is the interfaces to the server. It makes sense to use what is portable between the two (a.k.a the skins themselves etc), but how you choose to render them in linux and indeed what the client is written in should be totally independant of the windows version? Mono is a smart choice if it truly tanslates to .net but I think there is too much emphasis these days on the language used as apposed to the code written. For instance mono may be good, it may be a perfect .net clone but I would assume that the API's and classes supplied by MS are NOT available as equivalents in linux. My point is "lets not try to bring windows to linux", rather lets make linux work for us. Cheers, Arkay. [/QUOTE]
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