A roadblock but also a non-event

Posted Jun 24, 2005 18:32 UTC (Fri) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]

Agreee, this is a non-event.

>First, .Net itself has become a non-event for Windows and the greater IT >community.

I certainly don't agree with this; a great deal of client side .NET coding is taking place.

>Added to which those people who are doing the most interesting coding
>with Mono appear to be doing Gtk# coding,

Yep.

>which is entirely distinct from the issue of compatibility with a
>Microsoft stack.

Yep.

>Do Gtk# coders, who constitute the bulk of the Mono community, really
>care about supporting further Microsoft standards?

To a point, core stuff, access to web services and what not. But this pretty much already works. C#/.NET is a great environment. Anyone who says it is "useless" should come see the running code. It is *FAR* less messy than Java (with its Jakata, Xerces, Xalan and what-not with version mania and insane class paths - sometimes when I'm in Java-land I think, "My Gawd, this is worse than Perl") and offers a very solid core of services (you don't need to add anything to work with XML, SOAP, etc...).

But some of the MIcrosoft specific stuff? Nah, I can do without it. I'm going to code to Gtk# on the client so it can run on LINUX, WIN2000, WINXP, etc... which even Avalon and whatever will never do. (Will they back-port to 2000? Even if they do, it will be a hack and poorly supported). And GTK is a *VERY* nice toolkit to work with. I hadn't done any client-side programming in 5+ years having been in the web-server-zone and I was able to knock together nice GUI apps within a day.