Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development

dp619 writes "Mono, a framework based on Microsoft technology, has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java, but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting. The story also touches on the failure of Linux distros to keep pace with Eclipse."

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[Jerry Coffin]

Yes. Did you bother to read what I said? The "even if" part fairly explicitly states that I was not commenting on the "comparison" that's currently provided, but on the possibility that "even if" they did write a comparison with enough depth to be meaningful, that there was a hint of a possibility that such a comparison might be somewhat biased.

Such bias is hard to avoid even under the best of circumstances. Even an author who really tries to be objective still tends to have rather set attitudes about the familiar versus the unfamiliar. I don't use either regularly, and don't care for either one, but I'm still enough more familiar with Java that I'd probably have difficulty comparing the two entirely fairly. For somebody who knows Java far better and uses it a great deal more, a truly unbiased comparison becomes simply impossible.

In this case, the problem is compounded considerably though: even if (somehow) they managed to write a comparison that was both meaningful and unbiased, the people to whom it could be useful would have no way of verifying its lack of bias. The only people who could/would know such a thing would be those with sufficient knowledge of both languages and platforms that they no longer needed any such comparison.

I stand by my original comment: the cited comparison is completely meaningless, and even if it did mean something, nobody who needs it would know enough to be certain whether they could trust it.