Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Feb 2008 15:08 UTC, submitted by masalinger
A huge 'discussion' took place on the desktop-devel mailing list of the GNOME project about a possible replacement for TomBoy, the Wiki-like note taking application-thing-program-utility written in Mono - it being written in Mono was the prime reason for the whole debate, which started here, and only got considerably nastier later on. "It would seem that lately there are a lot of FUD-spreading trolls crawling out of the woodwork trying to frighten people into thinking that GNOME somehow depends on Mono. Let's take a look at their most widely repeated claims."
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2008-02-27
I agree.
Java is more popular than C#.
In terms of evidence:
http://www.langpop.com/ (no shortage of stats here)
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare (C# bareley registers in lines of open source code committed compared to Java)
..Otherwise do your own search on dice.com
Java is also faster:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all
Miguel even had a blog post admitting as much last December!
If you prefer a cleaner language for the JVM, which is more elegant than C# see Scala:
http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/roundup-scala-for-java-refugee...
And did I mention that Java is GPL, while Mono is not?
Why would I want to use a clone of a Microsoft product (Mono website even uses the word "clone"!)
"we will be cloning the .NET development"
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_Rationale
which is, in turn derived from Java:
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/30/asp_net_java_project_cool/
...which Microsoft lied about (see above link).
also see:
http://www.news.com/2100-1001-242268.html
Edited 2008-02-27 08:50 UTC