Ars Technical on Mono development

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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.
 
Baja Jones said:
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.
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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
 
bob said:
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
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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 !
 
Baja Jones said:
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.
Click to expand...

What a ****ing joke. First Gnome and now this worthless POS.
 
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 !
Click to expand...

It was really easy to install on gentoo as well...
 
bob said:
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
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Thats why I love gentoo and its portage tree, just emerge mono...

Calle
 
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