"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