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Xamarin's First Mono Release - Proof of Life!

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 4, 2011 @08:03AM 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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Kudos by Anonymous Coward · 2011-08-04 08:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

Kudos to the devs for persevering. Fuck all the zealot haters here.
Re:Thanks? by diegocg · 2011-08-04 08:56 · 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...
Re:Thanks? by hedwards · 2011-08-04 10:02 · 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.