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Re:Mono state of the union by Miguel de Icaza by rbanffy on Thursday February 18, 2010 @07:35PM (#1135815)
I guess I am nitpicking. Sorry for that.

In the root post, j23tom claimed Monodevelop was the fastest way to develop desktop apps on Linux, but are they Linux apps or are they .NET apps that also run on top of Mono?

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Re:Mono state of the union by Miguel de Icaza by viraptor on Saturday February 20, 2010 @07:13AM (#1138944)
Is there a difference? If you have a .NET app that runs under Linux, is it not a Linux app? (same goes for any platform agnostic runtime - java, js, lua, python, ...) There aren't that many languages that are really system-dependant. Conversly, many "Linux apps" written in C/C++ will compile and run just fine under Haiku or Mingw - does that make them BeOS or Windows apps?

It seems that "(Linux|Windows|Mac|BeOS|whatever) app" doesn't have the same meaning today...

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