Is there any chance Chrome OS will support .NET framework?

Question

Is there any chance Chrome OS will support .NET framework? Or will we need to learn Java...

Answer 1

A chance? Sure. But one so tiny that it isn't worth thinking about.

The publicity so far suggests that it will do nothing except run Chrome. This will give the usual APIs (including Google Gears), but everything will have to run in the browser.

You don't have to learn Java. Client side web programming is almost entirely based around JavaScript (which has about as much in common with Java as carpets have in common with cars.)

Of course, you will still be able to use .NET on the server should you so wish. Personally, I'll stick to Perl.

Answer 2

I doubt it will support either. Well, maybe java browser applets or Silverlight/moonlight, but even that's a stretch. From the sounds of things it will be just barely enough to get the Chrome browser running, and that's it's. No other apps or even desktop environment.

Answer 3

It depends on a lot of things unfortunately. Most particularly what version of the .Net Framework.

Will it support the Microsoft version of the framework? Unlikely as it won't be based on the Windows OS.

As far as I know, it will be a Linux based product so it has a higher chance of supporting a project like Mono. But given this will be a very stripped down OS, targeting smaller devices, it may end up needing to target a stripped down version of mono (similar to the compact framework).

But this is mainly idle speculation until a bit more is known about Chrome OS.

Answer 4

If it will support any form of dotNet, it will be Mono. But as it will break with the existing WM's, a lot of features won't work. Probably only the base class lib and some fully managed libraries.

But if someone writes a glue between COS's WM and Mono, you can expect a full COS experience,