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Creating .NET C# Applications for Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the expanding-your-horizons dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to mention an article on the IBM site entitled Mono brings .Net Apps to Linux. From the article: "Mono gives open source developers the programming power and flexibility to build applications for Linux while maintaining cross-platform capabilities, using a variety of .NET-compatible languages. One of the great advantages of Mono for current .NET developers is providing an easier migration path to Linux. The Mono project has a very open and active development community and provides both developer tools and the infrastructure needed to run .NET client and server applications. Perhaps the most important benefit of using the Mono architecture is that you gain language independence. Mono lets you leverage any existing code from languages supported in the .NET runtime. "

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  1. I'm sorry by smartin · · Score: 1, Troll

    But just use Java. Why play second class citizen in some one elses world. Java was designed to be cross platform from day one and is really supported on all platforms.

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  2. Doing .NET with MONIO is like a 2nd class citizen by huisinro · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since MONO will always play catch up with the real Microsoft .NET platform. MONO is only a subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework with fewer functionality and poor performance. I feel uncomfortable when I know there is a better implementation out there. Another approach would be to use the unmodified Microsoft .NET Framework directly on Linux. I did some prototype, and it should work, but the it will limit to x86 platforms.