Re:Microsoft and Xamarin partner
by baq on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:50PM
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I think you missed the point of Mono. Windows compatibility is one thing, but being able to use a really nice language that is C# and a really nice stdlib that comes with the CLR on non-Windows OS-es for development is something completely different.
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Re:Microsoft and Xamarin partner
by magnet_ball on Friday November 15, 2013 @02:59PM
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The BCL is such a great tool that I am sometimes baffled by other languages heavy reliance on package managers like npm or gems to get basic functionality.
It is consistent, well behaved and while not complete, it is very solid. The only complaint I have are that it has some dark corners (System.Diagnostics come to mind) and the fact that non of the classes are easily used for testing and that I have to wrap a lot of basic functionality like file system access or the TcpClient to be avle to test my classes.