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Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)

Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Mar 12, 2004 19:01 UTC (Fri) by stuart2048 (subscriber, #6241)
In reply to: Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet) by zooko
Parent article: Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)

Java will never take over the world. C# will never take over the world. And Mono will definitely never take over the world.

It's a shame, really. C is painful in so many ways.


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C painful? Upgrade.

Posted Mar 13, 2004 17:00 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

If you had just a choice among C, Java-Gcj, and Mono, it wouldn't be very interesting. However, there are other choices.

Most people have no idea how many of the packages they run are written in C++, because (unlike Java) there's no need to know what they are written in. You unpack them, and they just work. There are nice and safe bindings to C++ for all the GNOME libraries, and of course the KDE libraries start out that way.

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