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Mono's MCS Compiles Itself On Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the self-hosting-to-come dept.

thing12 writes "On Thursday Paolo Molaro announced that he had managed to build the MCS C# compiler using MCS. This is a big step forward for Mono, as it means that Mono is almost a self hosting environment."

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  1. Sound good, until... by Ayende+Rahien · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's nice to know that it can build itself, too bad that then it immediately crash and brun.
    It's a good step in creating a self - sufficent Mono implementation.
    But didn't that story already appear on /.?

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  2. Mono: Reinventing the wheel + imitating Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, guys. Way to go. Instead of fighting
    .NET by ignoring it (worked for ActiveX), you are using valueable resources to imitate it.
    And comparing certain other technologies, .NET and so Mono is a huge step backwards.

    We had code mobility, distributed apps, services (including web services) two years ago.

  3. Boring, irrelevant and self-congratulatory by MightyMicro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So a compiler has compiled itself. Big deal. This sort of process has been going on for 40 years and is the normal bootstrap process. It's only surprising that (a) it's taken so long and (b) that the perpetrators think anyone's interested.

    Time to get a life, folks.