Linked by snydeq on Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:43 UTC
Apple Novell has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The SDK leverages Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#.
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I don't see this going anywhere
by madcrow on Tue 15th Sep 2009 01:12 UTC
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At $399 for a "Personal Edition" license and $999 for the "Enterprise Edition", I don't see this going much of anywhere. It's just plain not worth that much money. Which is really a shame, because C# really is a much "friendlier" language than Objective-C, which to me has always seemed to me to be an ugly kludge trying to cram C-like and Smalltalk syntax into the same language...

Edited 2009-09-15 01:18 UTC