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Originally posted by TheHeadFL
Why would you dislike .NET any more than Java? |
I actually meant to say visual studio .NET there - I guess it is kind of a case of not being completely in control with VS.NET in that it will do a lot of the work for you and i havent used it enough to trust that it is doing what i want it to do. clearly if you are developing for windows it is the only IDE to use and probably the most advanced around.
In terms of Java and .NET i love coding in java but clearly if i am writing a purely windows application then .NET is the way to go. however if i want something compatible across platforms then Java wins hands down.
Java is not pure interpreted though. it works in a very similar way to .NET. The java code is compiled to java byte code, which is then interpreted by the virtual machine. Where as .NET i believe is compiled to an intermediate language that is then JIT compiled. - Java just skips this JIT comiling, which used to make it a little slower on execution, but as computers have got more advanced and the byte code has got more efficient its speed is still comparable to that of most languages