Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 20:41 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 1.0. MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux and Mac OS X. MonoDevelop makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and Mac OS X and to maintain a single code base for all three platforms."
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2008-03-17
As long as Python and wxPython are around, why would anyone want to code in Mono? I seriously don't get it. My comments below just use Python as an example. This is not meant to be a pro-Python flame bait.
Aside from ASP.net where needed, I just don't see where Mono does anything that Python/wxPython can't. With all the FUD concerning patents, what's the point? Where I work, I am able to create full GUI apps (with native widgets) with absolutely no run-time requirements whatsoever. The entire app with everything it needs to run is in a single folder (my executable, and 6 dll's totaling 5 megabytes). I get the benefit of managed code, the maturity of the wxWidgets codebase, a totally rich GUI with native look and feel. You can create true win32 NT services, call any native dll (including win api) , or any other "windowzy" thing. Plus, there is no need to download MASSIVE VM's like Java, .NET, etc...
(For those unfamiliar with Python: You *DON'T* need Python installed on client machines to run apps written in Python. Your code can be deployed as .EXE's on Win32 boxes without poking anything off into Windows directories or anywhere else.)
Edited 2008-03-17 03:40 UTC