Mono Project Continues Making Progress

[frampone]

Java vs C#?

Seriously?
While I believe C# to have a nicer syntax/API when compared to Java, they are both technologies I wouldn't use.

They're quite similar and neither of them is really cross platform.
Java looks like crap on any non windows platform (and, please, don't make me think about those ugly themes) and literally eat RAM.
Mono isn't really crossplatform (let's say you share code among different platform) and is heavy as hell on any non windows platform.

To develop crossplatform GUI applications the only library which comes close is Qt.
While not perfect (on some platform the appearance is not always the same) you nearly always have a native look in your application.
Plus, using C++ with QTL is totally another world (when compared to STL or other libraries).
It's the proof that C++ can be easy.

[jayrulez]

Java and JDK are awesome!
As someone who has developed in both C# and Java, I can say that Java is superior to C#. You write
much less code, and things are so much nicer.
Also the Java Class Library (JCL) is much nicer than the .NET framework.
And Eclipse beats Visual Studio out of the water.
Also stuff like Java FX is really nice.





FTFY

You actually broke it.

C# might be a great language, however I'll probably never use it. I can't feel safe using Mono on Linux - not after the years-long campaign Microsoft held (and still hold) against Linux vendors.

MS claimed that Linux is violating its patents and threatened to sue. How can I be assured they won't use some bogus C# patent to extort me? On the client side nobody uses C# anyway, and there are Python/Ruby/Jave etc on the server side. Why take a risk?

In reality, Microsoft doesn't care about you.

P.S: Do you have a surplus of cash that Microsoft would be interested in obtaining?

I prefer Java because it's less convoluted than C#, easier and more elegant and purer OOP .

Just plain wrong.

Hoewever, the strength of C# doesn't lie in the language itself but in it's .NET library. In java you usually have to draw upon third-party (in most cases open source) libraries to do the same.

Which is a moot point since C# is distributed with those libraries. The same can be said about Java, C++ and many other languages.

Language wise, I've never found anything that I can't do in Java with it's simpler and easier to remember language constructs. The only thing I miss in Java is an easier way to interface with native libraries. I've never liked the JNI.

That doesn't really say anything about C# or .Net/Mono.

True!

Mono is useful for Microsoft to avoid anti-trust trials and claim it's "multiplatform", but...
can you use mono? and your friends? and your customers?

Is that something you came up with your self or are you just regurgitating bullshit produced by someone else.

Beware of Microsoft's "property". It is patented.

So, who really cares if it's theoretically any good, when legally it is a threat for you?

Many people obviously.

Remember Java in Google vs Oracle?

Btw. how many of you actually develop & deploy larger applications, which have to run seemlessly on several platforms at the same time? The amount of pro-C# voices here tells me, that it isn't the majority.

I do actually. One was deployed Monday after roughly 9 months of development (primarily by me).

I'd wager money that there's some microsoft employees posting on phoronix.

I'd put big money on that statement being false. Would you put money on it being true?

Miguel de Icaza is a fu*king moron and a profi troll. Case closed.

There's no need for that man.

[alexThunder]

Yes, I noticed. It's cool how you can easily determine, whether someone actually knows, what he's talking about or not in IT related stuff, just by the way how he talks about it.

Java looks like crap on any non windows platform

and literally eat RAM.

Thanks for delivering a perfect example so quickly :P

[Guest]

Icaza's propaganda

It is incredible how successful Mono was able to become. They have produced an incredible framework for application development. There is an increase it its adoption by companies of various sizes. Mono has a bright future and may even become the de facto implementation of .NET as Microsoft seems to pay more attention to its Windows RT framework these days (See little innovation/improvements in the last release).

It has provided a way out for users of frameworks that are all but abandoned by Microsoft (XNA).
It is available and seeing increased adoption on all major platforms (despite the steep cost on some platforms). The tools (both existing and in development) are quite useful.

The playscript implementation will be a big deal in the future.

You're kidding, right? Or perhaps, you just copied this from M$r Icaza's website?

[Luke_Wolf]

Does anyone know if CppSharp, which was mentioned in the slides, will mean anything for the Qyoto team? It would be nice if Qt and by extension QtQuick2/QML was finally accessible in C#.

[Guest]

In reality, Microsoft doesn't care about you.

They do, otherwise they wouldn't sent such propaganda boy like you to phoronix forums.

P.S: Do you have a surplus of cash that Microsoft would be interested in obtaining?

Yes, user base. As for mono nono, there are just FEW mono apps available on Linux and they're joke compared to non mono counterparts. Who will ever bother with something like this? Furthermore, mono nono isn't .Net compatible. Get lost.

[Luke_Wolf]

Mono has a bright future and may even become the de facto implementation of .NET as Microsoft seems to pay more attention to its Windows RT framework these days (See little innovation/improvements in the last release).

Well what I read on the matter seemed to indicate that they were focusing mostly on Roslyn as opposed to working on features, Which is supposed to come with the version of visual studio after the 2013 version. What I expect is that Roslyn is going to be the big feature for 2013.next(), and then we're going to start seeing more features beyond that coming in again for 2013.next().next() (Not that Roslyn isn't itself a megafeature).

[mike4]

C# never got widely used and is not an open standard, hence forget about it.

[jayrulez]

They do, otherwise they wouldn't sent such propaganda boy like you to phoronix forums.



Yes, user base. As for mono nono, there are just FEW mono apps available on Linux and they're joke compared to non mono counterparts. Who will ever bother with something like this? Furthermore, mono nono isn't .Net compatible. Get lost.

"Propaganda boy". I must admit that this is a new one.

Welcome to the fucking Internet where everyone with an opinion is a hater|fanboy|shill|"Propaganda boy" or some other colourful adjective.

You idiots are going to shun Mono then complain that there are just a few Mono apps available for Linux. I'm alarmed by this paradox.

Also, there are a lot of apps on Linux and they're a joke compared to the non-Linux counterparts. See how that can work?
Not inherent to Mono.

ou're kidding, right? Or perhaps, you just copied this from M$r Icaza's website?

No, no.

[plonoma]

Mono is trying to implement .NET with the languages and facilities, libraries, api's that come with it.
However many things are patented.
It is a distraction from the fact that .NET only works on windows and to pretend they give a shit about cross-platform to push back against HTML+Javascript/Java/Ruby/Others...

There are much better ways to improve things.
If they wanted to improve tools for Linux why not help with other projects or help with porting Linux IDE's and stuff to Windows?
There are non-Microsoft dialects of basic. Why not do something similar?
Change some little things and call it something different. It works for Microsoft.