Ars Technical on Mono development

[Baja Jones]

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Conclusion

As you can clearly see, Mono brings almost limitless possibilities in
breaking down the barrier between desktops: a commercial software
provider would target Mono and it would "just work" on all platforms
that Mono supported. How is this different from Java? In my opinion Java
makes things harder than it needs to be. For starters, enforced
exception handling can't auto-box/unbox primitive types and doesn't
support arbitrary length parameter lists String.Format() style.

The framework of Mono provides the ability to make a very tedious task
in C/C++ almost trivial in C#. As the above example, RegEx, shows, it
helps the programmer concentrate on the program itself, rather than the
logic supporting the code.

 

[bob holder]

http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html


Conclusion

As you can clearly see, Mono brings almost limitless possibilities in
breaking down the barrier between desktops: a commercial software
provider would target Mono and it would "just work" on all platforms
that Mono supported. How is this different from Java? In my opinion Java
makes things harder than it needs to be. For starters, enforced
exception handling can't auto-box/unbox primitive types and doesn't
support arbitrary length parameter lists String.Format() style.

The framework of Mono provides the ability to make a very tedious task
in C/C++ almost trivial in C#. As the above example, RegEx, shows, it
helps the programmer concentrate on the program itself, rather than the
logic supporting the code.

That's if you can get to your code. I'm still trying to get mono built. So
far it's been an endless dependency chain. Last nights session was wrapped
around libgdiplus, gtk+, gtk2, glib, ...
good luck.
bob

 

[Baja Jones]

That's if you can get to your code. I'm still trying to get mono built. So
far it's been an endless dependency chain. Last nights session was wrapped
around libgdiplus, gtk+, gtk2, glib, ...
good luck.
bob

The sad thing is : the Windows installation is a helluva lot simpler !

It's just two standard setup.exe's -- one for mono, one for GTK !

 

[Linux Nightmare]

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Conclusion

As you can clearly see, Mono brings almost limitless possibilities in
breaking down the barrier between desktops: a commercial software
provider would target Mono and it would "just work" on all platforms
that Mono supported. How is this different from Java? In my opinion Java
makes things harder than it needs to be. For starters, enforced
exception handling can't auto-box/unbox primitive types and doesn't
support arbitrary length parameter lists String.Format() style.

The framework of Mono provides the ability to make a very tedious task
in C/C++ almost trivial in C#. As the above example, RegEx, shows, it
helps the programmer concentrate on the program itself, rather than the
logic supporting the code.

What a ****ing joke. First Gnome and now this worthless POS.

 

[Tom Shelton]

The sad thing is : the Windows installation is a helluva lot simpler !

It's just two standard setup.exe's -- one for mono, one for GTK !

It was really easy to install on gentoo as well...

 

[Christer Carlsson]

That's if you can get to your code. I'm still trying to get mono built. So
far it's been an endless dependency chain. Last nights session was wrapped
around libgdiplus, gtk+, gtk2, glib, ...
good luck.
bob

Thats why I love gentoo and its portage tree, just emerge mono...

Calle