Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 21st Jan 2004 07:56 UTC
Unix was originally all about not being... Multics. If Mono is to follow a similar nomenclature (just for the kicks), we have to talk about Mono's upcoming 'monopolization' and 'monarchy' in the next generation of the Unix programming land. Your see, if everything goes well, in 2 to 3 years most new Gnome user/desktop applications will be written --hopefully-- in Mono and C#. Update: Miguel deIcaza replies.
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Looking at it realistically, there seems to be a very small chance of Mono being a part of the core of GNOME within a couple of years:
*GNOME is still very much a GNU project. Remember that GNU still considers C++ immature and recommends against it in cross-platform programming. Surely Mono will not be regarded (or be) more stable and more cross-platform in a couple of years than C++ is now?
*Many engineers and programmers of the big companies developing GNOME (Red Hat, Novell, Sun etc) are entrenched in their current programming language (mostly C) and do not want to start using a new language.
*As stated, Sun would never agree to let Mono into GNOME due to the competition between Mono and Java. Even if the GNOME project could force the issue with the help of Red Hat, they would not like risk loosing Sun as a supporter and Solaris as a platform of deployment.
Of course, even with Mono not a part of the GNOME core, several non-crucial GNOME apps will surely be written in Mono as well as other alternative languages (Python etc).