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by CWuestefeld
5912 days ago
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As with many HN articles, the headline is misleading. Really, the language switch is a symptom, and not the driver of the decision. From the article, their requirements included: one of the first tasks we got was to make the management application cross platform, well this was expected considering the fact that the acquisition was done by RedHat. And: Sticking with C# requires technologies to help us run it on Linux. We found Mono ..., and the second option we found was Grasshopper which is a project of Mainsoft to compile MSIL to Java Bytecode. ... These 2 solutions were taken off the table ... we wanted to use a technology supported by Red Hat. So it appears to me that the decision had nothing at all to do with technical strengths of the language. Moreover, it had nothing to do with the platform as such -- whether its technical strengths or any end-user demographics -- but purely politics driven by Red Hat. |
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