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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. Kudos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kudos to the devs for persevering. Fuck all the zealot haters here.

    1. Re:Kudos by Samuraid · · Score: 2

      Kudos to the devs for persevering. Fuck all the zealot haters here.

      Aye! Protoss, all the way!
      But in all seriousness...as a C# developer, I've spent the morning despairing about Windows 8's seeming lack of .NET support. This news is a small, but welcome, glimmer of hope. Kudos to Xamarin for striving to give .NET the platform support and reach that Microsoft never gave.

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  2. "Proof of Life" by XanC · · Score: 3, Informative

    This "Proof of Life" headline being folded up right next to the Mars announcement got me briefly very excited.

    1. Re:"Proof of Life" by eparker05 · · Score: 2

      I think people voted this article up just to plant the suggestion.

  3. Just so you know. by Dragonshed · · Score: 2

    Yes, someone cares.

    Other useful answers include:
    Yes, someone still builds (good) products in C#.
    Yes, .net on mobile is actually useful.
    Yes, this thing has legs.

    1. Re:Just so you know. by PCM2 · · Score: 2

      Actually, I don't think he is. Unity3D is a pretty popular cross-platform game development environment. Guess what? It uses Mono for game scripting. Just because you can't think of a use for a tool doesn't mean there is no use for a tool.

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  4. 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...

  5. 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!

    1. Re:Well *I* care!!! by Toonol · · Score: 2

      I agree, C# is a nicely designed language. I just don't see Mono ever gaining traction, though. Most C# .NET applications are a pain to port over, because there are some APIs that will always be missing... and I don't foresee many developers using it to write Linux-specific applications. .Net fills a niche in Windows, but I don't really see that niche in Linux.

  6. Why the Hatred for Mono? by uiucgrad · · Score: 2

    I have never really understood the hatred for Mono here on /. Like any other language it has its advantages and disadvantages. Each person or company choosing to do development takes a risk in the language / platform they decide to use. As long as that person or company feels comfortable managing those risks it seems like that should be enough.

    In my years on Slashdot I have not noticed the developers of Wine being vilified in even remotely the same way as de Icaza, despite the obvious parallels.

    1. 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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    2. Re:Why the Hatred for Mono? by mla_anderson · · Score: 2

      I've heard this over and over but haven't actually seen hard evidence for that. The best I've seen is that the Windows Forms implementation may have patent issues. Do you have better information?

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  7. Re:Does Anyone Care? by PinchDuck · · Score: 2

    Wow, that is a pretty harsh response. I don't really have a dog in that race, since I'm mostly a web app developer anyway. I use whatever my client has picked as their preferred stack in the background. Classic ASP, ASP.net, java, php, or pure C# talking to Extjs. Whatever. In any case, the only real posts I've seen about MS walking away from .net have all been on boards with a bias towards MS. To say that the Linux/Java people are behind it is kind of silly. They may be repeating it and amplifying it on places like Slashdot, but they didn't originate the posts. Personally I hope that MS sticks with C# and .net, it is a nice, robust ecosystem. If MS is 100% behind .net, then somehow a mis-perception is starting to erupt and they need to get on top of it.

  8. Re:Thanks? by hedwards · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you're being kind of generous there. I remember Windows from that period of time, and I can vouch for the fact that it wasn't a working win32 implementation.

  9. Re:Does Anyone Care? by exomondo · · Score: 2

    If MS is 100% behind .net, then somehow a mis-perception is starting to erupt and they need to get on top of it.

    Im pretty sure people on whom it actually would have an impact are well aware that the only thing with an uncertain future is Silverlight, but of course people who don't know what they're talking about for some reason assume Silverlight == .Net.