Open source .NET alternative

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Open source .NET alternative

The Mono project released Mono 2.0, a open source framework to run .NET applications

 

[|tera|]

So does this mean Linux could use Windows Apps? Games etc.? Coolness

 

[Pyro]

No, but it does improve portability a lot.

 

[|tera|]

No, but it does improve portability a lot.

Cool. I thought I got ahead of myself.

 

[HavocXphere]

Sounds promising.

Never liked the .Net thing.

 

[DominionZA]

I live in the .NET world 16 hours every day of my life. This is great news.

 

[slayerza]

This is good news for cross platform development

 

[<moLe>]

Hmm.. Dont like .net languages..but suppose this is more about the portability of aplications than the quality of the general .net applications

 

[Obelix]

.net programs ( C# VB.net, J# ) dont compile to a proper exe. Theyre like java in that that they compile to a bytecode. the bytecode is then executed by the local .net frameworks. Momo just provides a way of executing that bytecode on a linux platform. Only snag is when you hit stuff like SQL server connectivity.

 

[MielieSpoor]

I'll stay with .Net

 

[Guest 20221009]

MONO is great news. Imeem.com uses the "framewok" a whole lot.. .Net is my kinda thing.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Well we are using mono for a rather interesting product and was prototyped on Windows and porting to LINUX was just doing a few tweaks. I don't use it, but will give it a try next year for some backend apps.

 

[Lazy]

Every programming language has it's good and bad points. It's really up to the programmer to know his stuff [most of the time], after that it doesn't really matter; thus bad programmer = bad product no matter which language used

My biggest mindset change when using mono is to ensure that I construct my [directory] paths properly, not using things such as C:\Bla\Bla\Test, but rather System.IO.Path.Combine(... , ...).
I know, I'm lazy

 

[Cyberdude]

Great stuff, I use .NET every day, all day long

 

[Guest 20221009]

Every programming language has it's good and bad points. It's really up to the programmer to know his stuff [most of the time], after that it doesn't really matter; thus bad programmer = bad product no matter which language used

true, except that .Net is not a language and neither is Mono...Net is a framework that can utilize a variety of languages and Mono is just a non Windows implementation of .Net

 

[Lazy]

true, except that .Net is not a language and neither is Mono...Net is a framework that can utilize a variety of languages and Mono is just a non Windows implementation of .Net

 

[zamicro]

I'll stay with .Net

Why don't you just as well stay away from a pc?

You do not have a choice! It is not a case of either .net or mono.

 

[adrianx]

Mono has been around since 2004. I can't help wondering what kind of interesting patent lawsuits it will bring in future. Some people even go as far as removing it completely from their Linux installations. I'm not that radical, though... still have Tomboy notes on my panel... Maybe I'll consider using it if I am "forced" to use ASP(X) for web development. There are already a few other applications that use it, so maybe I wont have a choice.