Mono not well suited for Linux development [LWN.net]

Mono not well suited for Linux development

Posted Dec 16, 2010 15:57 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Mono not well suited for Linux development by mikov
Parent article: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

> I am not bashing Mono or other .NET re-implementations - I think it is a great product - but in my mind it is primarily a vehicle for porting Win32 .NET apps to Linux, and not really an ideal tool for Linux-only development.

Let the bashing to me, then. How many .NET apps have you seen ported to Linux recently?

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Mono not well suited for Linux development

Posted Dec 16, 2010 18:49 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

well, if mono does what it's supposed to, there is no need to do anything for any .NET app to make it run on linux other than to run it under mono.

so you would never see any apps explicitly ported to linux, they are all implicitly ported by the mono project.

Mono not well suited for Linux development

Posted Dec 16, 2010 19:09 UTC (Thu) by mikov (guest, #33179) [Link]

I suspect many of those apps might be of the closed source "enterprise" kind - not something that many of us would necessarily see.

The first time I played with mono I was put off by something completely superficial - the output files have a ".exe" extension by default :-)