Sometime on May 23, M cobbled together some glyphs to say:
really like to know how linux compares to M$ on the development front. It would be really usefull if someone could throw some light on - dll, COM, windows api equivalents on GNU/Linux.
Windows Unix .dll .so COM (what is it?) BONOBO/CORBA? W32 APIs: Linux system APIs: Kernel32.dll Kernel API Shell32.dll Shell API User32.dll libgnome* Gdi32.dll GDK API
Of course there are many more, I've just listed a few popular ones.
I doubt there exist a common api (for GUI) since there r different options available for different window managers. But then again x server
Right. Gtk and Qt are the most popular.
Also i'm aware about python and java which allow the program to be platform independent, but i'm looking at equivalent to M$ technologies
Most languages are platform independent until you start using platform specific services.