Mono Project Releases Version 1.0

theblackdeer writes "Just poking around the go-mono.com Mono website; it's now the multi-colored mono-project.com. Even better, it updated before my eyes to include the 1.0 release. Screenshots are (slightly) updated, too. Mono 1.0 includes the Mono Develop IDE (based on SharpDevelop, I believe). Download now and start your GTK# engines!" Alliante adds "You can download the Release Notes and the Packages on their website."

Comments

Appeal of RAD Langs

[iisageek]

The appeal of RAD Languages like VB and C# is nice because you can make a quick utility for a project or novilty without having to sell your first born child. Only draw back is, as with VB, script kiddies with basic knowledge can go and make viruses. Is this going to pose a threat to the *nix community who is known for it's inability for a quick RAD?

Re:But

[AntiOrganic]

I use Muine, as do many other Linux users I know.

How many people do you know on Windows who use C# apps? I bet you can't name one there either.

Pointless...

[sitarlo]

If I'm going to develop .NET applications, I'm going to use the Microsoft tools and platform to do it. Part of being a good developer is choosing the right tools and platforms for your applications. .NET is a cluster-f*** at best and I wouldn't want to polute my UNIX environments with it. I'm seeing too many of these open source projects trying to copy what Microsoft does. The open source community should be leading, not following!

Novellllllll

[Barryke]

If its labeled Novell I won't use it anyways.

Probarly because my school had Novell security wich was crap.
And fustrating because nothing would work the way its suposed to.

dont judge my bad english. it just sucks

Re:Why .NET and not Java?

[sbrown123]

Value types are especially used in the drawing APIs, becuase if you have GC pauses while you're redrawing the UI it will look slow to the user.


Most API's in both Java and .NET wrap native code that takes care of most hardware and memory intensive operations such as guis. How many C# coders you think use MFC or xlib/gtk/qt functions to create windows? For short lived objects where there is no API its best to reuse objects rather than create new ones since in both languages the allocation process hits performance much worse than the deallocation process.


The .NET version of generics includes support in the VM itself; this means that if you instantiate a generic type with a basic type (e.g., an ArrayList of int, in Java terms) in .NET you get unboxed types (actual ints) and in Java you get boxed types (Integers). This adds a lot of indirection, which has performance implications


Java 1.5 (now at beta 2) generics are a part of the VM. It also supports auto unboxing like .NET.

Ooh, great plan

[Rogerborg]

Lets start - and then end - with something that only runs on Linux and perhaps BSD. What the flying fuck is the point of that? Nobody will support it on Windows. Nobody will use it on Windows. Nobody will fucking care. How many wxWindows apps are there out there right now? Don't bullshit me, how fucking many?

God damn, you basement dwelling open sourcers piss me off. Drive or get off the fucking tee. Do you have a Java/.NET killer? Put up or shut the fuck up.