The Case For Supporting and Using Mono

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister argues in favor of Mono, asking those among the open source community who have 'variously described Mono as a trap, a kludge, or simply a waste of effort' to look past Miguel de Icaza and Mono's associations with Microsoft and give the open source implementation of .Net a second chance, as he himself has, having predicted Mono's demise at the hands of open source Java in 2006. Far from being just a clone of .Net for Linux, McAllister argues, Mono has been 'expanding its presence into exciting and unexpected new niches.' And for those who argue that 'developing open-source software based on Microsoft technologies is like walking into a lion's den,' McAllister suggests taking a look at the direction Mono is heading. The more Mono evolves, the less likely Microsoft is to use patent claims or some other dirty trick to bring down the platform."

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Mono just misses a debugger

[rocket22]

Mono is great to develop multi-platform code. Easier than C/C++ and almost as fast. You can even run WinForms code in MacOSX, Linux and even Solaris (http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/12/opensolaris-and-mwf.html). The only thing they miss is a debugger on all platforms. Their problem seems to be the lack of focus. Please folks: - A debugger now on all platforms!! - Eclipse integration (whatever, slick edit is enough but...) - Qt *real* support And then lots of people would jump to Mono/C# from C/C++

uuuh I had that is 9th grade....

[belligerent0001]

I got mono from Rachel Jellin in 9th grade....f-that man...Thanks but no thanks!!