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Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development
Nerval's Lobster writes: In the eleven years since Mono first appeared, the Linux community has regarded it with suspicion. Because Mono is basically a free, open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework, some developers feared that Microsoft would eventually launch a patent war that could harm many in the open-source community. But there are some good reasons for using Mono, developer David Bolton argues in a new blog posting. Chief among them is MonoDevelop, which he claims is an excellent IDE; it's cross-platform abilities; and its utility as a game-development platform. That might not ease everybody's concerns (and some people really don't like how Xamarin has basically commercialized Mono as an iOS/Android development platform), but it's maybe enough for some people to take another look at the platform.
Because it is better. The risk of getting sued by Microsoft is smaller than the risk that your project will fail because you use Java. Microsoft has said they guarantee that they will not guarantee that they will sue you. They guarantee there is a chance that they won't while if you use Java you are pretty much guaranteed to fail. It's just less risk.
"Better Java" is like a chocolate teapot being marginally preferable to one made of butter.