Re:Bringing Smiles to the Faces of MacOS developers - Miguel...
by bad_user on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @04:35AM
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How does that value proposition hold up for a B-grade
C# with patchy coverage of the forms et cetera
Comparing it to other open-source projects (Ruby MRI, Rubinius, Python, Pypy, Unladen Swallow, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ocaml) ... Mono is actually pretty solid and usable right now with good performance characteristics.
The generational GC took a long time to get developed, yes, but at least it does have a beta quality generational GC that you can use right now (compared to the alternatives) + Mono 2.8 also ships with a beta-quality JITer based on LLVM.
And about B-grade Windows Forms ... because you know, Swing is so much better than just porting the UI layer to WinForms / GTK# / MonoMac (Cocoa) and providing a native experience.
The generational GC took a long time to get developed, yes, but at least it does have a beta quality generational GC that you can use right now (compared to the alternatives) + Mono 2.8 also ships with a beta-quality JITer based on LLVM.
And about B-grade Windows Forms ... because you know, Swing is so much better than just porting the UI layer to WinForms / GTK# / MonoMac (Cocoa) and providing a native experience.