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Xamarin's First Mono Release - Proof of Life!

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-to-miguel dept.

mikejuk writes "After striking out on their own the former Mono team, now reconstituted as Xamarin, has just issued its first release of Mono. This is essentially a minor release with lots of bug fixes but it's proof of life for the Mono project after being dropped by Attachmate."

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  1. Re:Thanks? by diegocg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I do care. There are huge amounts of .NET code out there, and being able to avoid a OS/runtime lock-in is a Good Thing. I remember the 90's, when windows was a monopoly because it was the only working win32 implementation...

  2. Well *I* care!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love C#, i have coded in numerous languages over the years (Basic, Pascal, COBOL, C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript probably more i've forgotten) but for me C# is the cleanest and best thought-out. Yes, it was a rip-off of Java, but lets face it, Microsoft fixed and improved some of the shitness with Java!

    The only thing I didn't like was being locked into a Windows platform, and guess what.. Mono fixes that!

    So good luck to them, and long live Mono!

  3. Re:Why the Hatred for Mono? by mla_anderson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mostly because the site has been taken over by mindless Microsoft haters. Instead of promoting FOSS, they bash anything with a slight connection to MS (sorry M$). Mono is a really nice product and C# is really much nicer than Java, but since Mono is based on .NET and C# is from Microsoft they get castigated here.

    I considered starting my kids on C#, but decided Pascal is still a better teaching language. However once they've got the basics of programming down and I want to start in on OOP I'll move them to C# on Mono (MS doesn't make .NET for my platform).

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    Sig is on vacation