questions: .NET on other platforms?

[douglass_davis]

Just curious about this. All .NET programs are compiled to IL.

I was just wondering, how many .NET programs are actually used on other
platforms? For example, non-Windows, or non-Intel.

I've seen it used for robotics.

Using .NET for web applications on, say, a Linux machine seems doable.
But, what about GUI/window based apps? Is this being done at all? If
it is done then do .NET windows apps ever make calls to directly the
windows API? Wouldn't that disqualify a GUI .NET application from
being used on another OS?

Is there a distinction made between the part of the Framework Class
Library that's used for windowing, and the rest of it? Because it just
seems like the GUI part of the library would be unneeded in a lot of
cases.
I'm just curious how realistic it is that Windows GUI applications will
ever be widely run on other platforms. If it's not realistic, then why
not just compile them to machine language?
I'm really trying to understand the .NET thing, if you could help, i
would appreciate it :)

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Just curious about this. All .NET programs are compiled to IL.

I was just wondering, how many .NET programs are actually used on other
platforms? For example, non-Windows, or non-Intel.

I've seen it used for robotics.

Using .NET for web applications on, say, a Linux machine seems doable.
But, what about GUI/window based apps? Is this being done at all? If
it is done then do .NET windows apps ever make calls to directly the
windows API? Wouldn't that disqualify a GUI .NET application from
being used on another OS?

Is there a distinction made between the part of the Framework Class
Library that's used for windowing, and the rest of it? Because it just
seems like the GUI part of the library would be unneeded in a lot of
cases.
I'm just curious how realistic it is that Windows GUI applications will
ever be widely run on other platforms. If it's not realistic, then why
not just compile them to machine language?
I'm really trying to understand the .NET thing, if you could help, i
would appreciate it :)

--
http://www.douglassdavis.com