Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
by ebiester on Friday December 13, 2013 @04:24PM
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Has the Mono story gotten better? How feasible is it to develop without thousands of dollars of Microsoft software these days?
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Mono has gained serious traction the last few years. I've personally been using it along side .Net and am loving it. You could develop in Windows with the Free/Express versions of Visual Studio etc. and deploy binaries to Linux. You could also use monodevelop (http://monodevelop.com) in Linux or OSX. There are C# plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ as well.
Relevant: http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono https://servicestack.net/features http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18450/is-mono-ready-for-p...
Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
by bad_user on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:24PM
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> There are C# plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ as well
No, there aren't. And MonoDevelop has gotten better, Xamarin is doing a good job, but it's still a far cry from IntelliJ IDEA. If you want to target Mono, spare yourself the effort and just use Visual Studio.
http://emonic.sourceforge.net/index.html
IntelliJ still seems to be a wishlist item. Surprised there is nothing considering how many other great C# tools JetBrains produce.
Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
by socialist_coder on Saturday December 14, 2013 @06:18AM
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For command line apps they're fine. For web apps you still need to host them on Windows + IIS since the Linux+Mono c# web hosting is awful.
Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
by raverbashing on Friday December 13, 2013 @05:44PM
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It has been some time since I tried it
Basically, YMMV.
To develop, sure, it is feasible (I did this, but for a simple webservice), but it may be missing something essential to you.