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copied!<p>Jen, I'm worried about the wording of your question.</p> <p>"My team is planning to develop an application that is initially targeted for Windows but will eventually be deployed cross-platform (Mac, Linux and potentially embedded devices)."</p> <p>Is the plan to do cross-platform or not? I can infer that code will be initially written for Windows and then, maybe sometime later, effort will be expended in modifying the project for cross-platform capability. This will not be good for your health or your team's health! A definite business decision needs to be made here. One of the golden rules of cross-platform development is to treat all targeted platforms with absolute equality.</p> <p>Can you use C# for embedded environments? Has it already been done commercially? Just curious.</p> <p>"We’re projecting that by using C#, we can develop our product faster and at a lower cost due to the increase of productivity over C++" What do you mean 'projecting'? On what facts and figures are you making this projection? Do not forget that the coding effort on some projects is low as ~20% of the total effort required to bring a product to market. So the question of productivity comparison of computer languages may be not that significant. In my experience it's not productive to choose a computer language on the so-called productivity criteria.</p> <p>"we’re taking a gamble" I agree with that, and gambling seems to contradict the meaning of planning. The question is: what are the risks?</p> <p>Have you considered internationalisation?</p> <p>Yes, I'm being critical but someone who is paying the money for this project may well be more questioning.</p> <p>Book: Cross-Platform Development in C++: Building MAC OS X, Linux, and Windows Applications by Syd Logan - ISBN 032124642X Gives an idea of the issues involved.</p> <p>I've been on a cross-platform and internationalised projects for Windows, Mac, and Linux using C++/Qt. The latter does well for both issues. One dis-like I have of Qt is it is not modern C++ in idiom nor does it encourage the use of modern C++ idioms. Just like MFC.</p>

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