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Mono and .NET - An Interview

Posted by chrisd on from the not-the-kissing-disease dept.

all-of-the-dot writes "Would you use an open-source implementation of the .NET Framework? Ximian's Mono project enables you to build .NET apps that run on Linux and Unix as well as Windows. Check out the story from .NET Magazine's interview with Miguel de Icaza, Ximian cofounder and CTO" Added to which, AirLace writes "The Mono project has just achieved full self-hosting on Linux. While the C# compiler, itself written in C#, has been able to compile itself since March, Mono can now compile its own complete set of class libraries too. This announcement closely follows the release of the Phonic media player, the first .NET application for the GNOME desktop."

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  1. Re:It's not the code stupid... by I_redwolf · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The above post is typical; "it's the tools". It's gonna be those same tools that make the overall code poor. Designs will be poor, code will be badly written and it's because of the "tools". Any good coder or coder worth their weight in salary wants to make sure that they spend time working with every bit of their code. Backtracing a problem makes you a better coder, it makes you understand problems when you have to do it yourself. This is why I don't recognize VB coders as real coders because they can't fucking understand simple concepts. All I see .NET as is VB, with a likeness of Java claiming to be cross portable etc etc; Just Microsoft taking ideas from other people again and mucking them together. There won't be any different applications coming from this, any different ideas or code being made. Anything different at all EXCEPT that it will eventually and I'll bet my life on it.. Block others from using some website or whatever app it is unless they are using a Microsoft certified platform. Thats Microsoft's goal, not being open, not playing fairly, none of that matters. Why can't the opensource community get this through their head; it's like Microsoft gives you a cookie and you happily sit there and eat it while it goes back to pouring cyanide in your milk.

    Miguel is constantly chasing after Microsoft technologies, and I don't know why. Microsoft hasn't had a proven technology that worked well EVER. Unix consistently has.