"This is why I write web apps"

A blog post by Imvox about porting their C# desktop application to Mac OS X using Mono and Monobjc resulted in some hilarious Hacker News comments:

• "A lot of apps still need to run in the Dark Ages that are desktop development"
• "expertise with somewhat strange problems that your average web programmer just isn't suited to handle such as memory leaks"
• "RealBASIC is surprisingly awesome for cross-platform application development"
• And of course: "This is why I write web apps
  

Time Out

csharp> TimeSpan s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3);
csharp> s.Milliseconds;
0
csharp> s.TotalMilliseconds;
3000

Zero

After some vacillation about a clever name for this blog, here it is. Names not chosen include but are not limited to:

• Currying Favor
• Open Closures
• Programming: What a Haskell
• 0x29A: Number of the BST
• C!@$%^&*
• Kicked in the Critical Region
• Func<You>
• Lock and Roll
• Try Finally
• Travelling Salesman
• Untupulous