.NET pros and Cons

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Tim Anderson's IT writing site has an interesting discussion board that lists .NET pros and cons. I've summarized some of the topics, below, to give a sense of the broad discussion areas. Of course, the fact that it's running on a PHP-based forum sends some sort of message...

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For: No-touch/Click-once deployment

Against: The Microsoft factor

For: Code access security

Against: Executables easily decompiled

For: Supports multiple languages

Against: GUI applications are slow

For: Linux support with Mono

Against: Large runtime needed

For: Easy component sharing

Against: Memory usage is huge

.NET Pros and Cons