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Mono's Cocoa# Underway, GTK# Takes on Windows.Forms

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the portability-now dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews posted some exclusive screenshots of a new project in the Mono community: Cocoa#. Apparently there are a couple of Apple engineers helping out the project that allows developers to create graphical Cocoa applications under Mac OS X using the C#, Python or Basic language. Mono seems to be doing well in the Windows land too, allowing developers to use GTK# instead of Windows.Forms to create multi-platform apps."

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  1. Gtk# Rocks-Scaling errors. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Even back in the 0.8 days, I had very few problems making a medium sized app (~4000 lines), developed entirely under linux with Mono."

    I wasn't aware that a Graphical "Hello World" was so big.

  2. Linux on CLR by marksibly · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Personally, I find this whole 'Linux on CLR' thing very disturbing. What would happen, and, more importantly, how much leverage would MS suddenly have over Linux, if it all actually took off in a big way? And its not like its anything particularly clever. Sure, C# is a nice enough language, but the real deal here is the platform/language neutral CLR - which has been done academically several times over. Perhaps its like the KDE/GNOME thing. Perhaps the whole Linux scene has just been waiting for someone to 'spank' them into accepting a standard? Pretty ironic if it turned out to be MS though. Dunno. Just very cynical about what the real importance of what's happening here.