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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by coldtea on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:54AM (#14382161)
>Mono actually works, today. It's hype is not ~5 years ahead of an actual implementation. It's not continuously waiting for one more generation of tooling to settle down, or one more standard to be decided or API to be implemented. Its "Getting Started" examples actually compile and run, consistently.

Funny, because "it just works" has never been the case for the entire existence of Mono. Always a little behind, always all kinds of obscure bugs and unfinished implementations, etc. Even the commercial Xamarin offerings suffered from those.

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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by whatnotests on Saturday May 20, 2017 @11:56AM (#14382944)
Mono got me out of a jam about 7-8 years ago.

Had a Gentoo server that needed a Perl application to fetch data from a MS SQL Server.

FreeTDS just would not compile, but Mono installed just fine.

I wrote Inline::MonoCS [0] and everything Just Worked.

[0] http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/Inline-MonoCS-1.000/lib/Inline...

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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by SwellJoe on Saturday May 20, 2017 @06:15PM (#14384636)
That is among the most complicated "it Just Worked" stories I've heard.
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Re:Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector by exadeci on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:45PM (#14389918)
>Gentoo

Should tip you off.

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