Originally posted by Pawlerson
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That desktop post-it note program whose name I can't remember was written in Mono. The anti-Mono zealots cloned it in C, which took them about four times as long to write. The result was indeed faster and used less RAM. But if you look at it in terms of programming time the original was a win for Mono because it was so easy to write.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by not .Net compatible. Last time I tried it in 2010, I was able to write a WinForms app that ran on Windows, Linux Mono on amd64 and Linux Mono on Itanium. I did have to be careful with what WinForms features I used but it did work.
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