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Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the and-do-it-with-style dept.

Edd Dumbill writes "Miguel de Icaza and the Mono team recently hosted a two day open meeting in Boston. O'Reilly have just published my report of the meeting. Highlights include Miguel's view that 'C is dead!' and the Mono approach to dealing with Microsoft patents on .NET."

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  1. Re:Miguel is dead! by Trejkaz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You do know this is in reference to a different joke set, right?...

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  2. C# by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Has anyone noticed that C# is really just VB with curly brackets?

  3. Re:.NET by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    .NET is good because it takes the best from languages that are already in existence. It's not like there is anything revolutionary in C# that isn't in any other language out there.

    Go away and learn a REAL language, like Lisp or ML, then come back and tell me that statement isn't one of the stupidest things said round here for a long time.

    Rich.

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  4. Re:Um, no. by Elektroschock · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Well, QT is not properly supported and the desktop plattform is KDE, not Gnome 3.0. I don't use GTK#. Don't mislead. Windows.forms will be wine crap and therefore not be mature or stable.

    Wasn't it announced last year that we can expect mono 1.0 at the end of the year? so when will it be released?

    Ximian is known for its vapor-marketing. For me mono is just work in progress.