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."

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Furry porn!

[Linux-based-robots]

Not mono-related, but fun to look at nonetheless

Manager Speak

[Anonymous Coward]

Warning: The whole website is littered with manager speak.

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?

Some please explain to me

[Anonymous Coward]

Why any person in their right mind would choose to develop on Mono rather than Java?

The greatest risk of the Mono project is Microsoft stepping in and filing suit against the project for using its API w/o a license. Doesn't anyone else see this? Why was Mono ever started to begin with? All you Mono developers are doing is putting $$$ into microsoft's pocket!!!

Use JAVA! It doesn't come with any of the potential problems that Mono does; Java is deployable on any OS w/ a JRE (unlike .NET), and is a much better language overall than C#.

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.

Re:Why .NET and not Java?

[Anonymous Coward]

As has been pointed out ad tedium ...

Well WHOOP-TEE-FUCKING-DOO! Big fucking words! Why don't you just shhot your load all over my face?

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!

Re:How important is this for Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

The linux landscape is changing, its going mainstream, and there are a lot linux users who don't like that. I must humbly suggest to such people that you cannot do anything about it, and you should therefore either accept the reality or start moving to another system where you can feel more "l33t".

Err, No... Wake me up when your mainstream is building linux from scratch. Wake me up when the mainstream has enough smarts not to run binary code. To summize, wake me up when you aren't being an inflammatory little prick.

On the issue of .NET and Microsofts troj^H^H^H^H EMCA ratified CLR, I have but a one word answer, "NO"!

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.