For the past few weeks I have been reading through C# and .Net. .Net is an evolved platform over Java concepts. The platform and C# seems interesting and challenging. An interesting feature is that .Net (along with C#) is already ported into Linux, though the GUI library (windows forms) is not supported under Linux. But there are promising developments coming along. Another interesting feature is that .Net includes xml/xsl processing within the platform. This makes it a suitable choice for updating FOW. Only downside from the user’s perspective is that they will have to download the .Net runtime. But as Microsoft is pushing the technology, in few years time the platform will be on most of the PCs. From development perspective, I will have to rewrite FOW from scratch.

My plan is that I should be able to release a windows version of FOW in around 3 months and in few more months it should work in Linux as well.