Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone regarding Mono.

Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by larrywright on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @09:46AM (#691433)

I'm not quite sure why Mono is so important. Technically, it's an interesting accomplishment to be sure, but I don't see that it gives you anything you can't get elsewhere. Particularly on the web front, MS is certainly not leading edge anymore.

On the desktop application front, this is certainly better than coding GTK apps in C, but other alternatives to that already existed (namely the Ruby and Python bindings for GTK).

The bottom line is that while C# and the .NET framework are certainly better than MS's previous development offerings, it still offers very little of interest in my opinion. Ruby, Scala, Clojure, and Python have much more compelling features for most problems.

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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by youngian on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:27PM (#691910)

Yes. Anyone care to give a short explanation of what exactly is so promising about Mono that it's worth all the worrying? Whether or not these fears pan out to anything, they're substantial enough that there should be a pretty good motivation for not just switching to another development platform.

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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by inklesspen on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @09:50PM (#693053)

The only thing I've ever heard is that some people _like_ programming in C# and refuse to learn other languages.

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