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Mono Blocked from MS Conference
Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that Microsoft has apparently blocked the Mono 'Birds-of-a-Feather' meeting from being held at their Professional Developers Conference for the second year in a row. Miguel de Icaza discusses the circumstances in his blog. From the blog: 'It is their conference, and they have every right to control what they will allow to be shown there, but they actively have misrepresented things.' Not terribly surprising but infuriating nonetheless.
Why you wouldn't use an existing and mature cross platform language that is non-microsoft is beyond me.
At least C# is an open standard... that kinda makes it not-necessarily-microsoft. Java is Sun's and that doesn't look like it will change any time soon. As far as the "rest of the industry"... If you mean... most of the other folks who don't work on Microsoft (you know, that other 10% of computers) mostly use Java, which has it's own set of craptitudes... but some of that other 10% use Mono as well.
I haven't had many good experiences with anything written in Java. It either is like using stone axes and sticks or it is painfully slow, or both. I personally don't like Java all that much either, but I guess that's probably tainted by my being forced to use JBuilder and some other craptastic stuff back when we were working in Java.