Last Thursday OSNews had the opportunity to meet Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, Ximian and among other things leader of the much discussed, Mono project. Miguel is a talented and versatile developer but he is also a very intelligent businessman able to understand the industry on many different levels. Talking to Miguel guarantees that you are very quickly taken away by his enthusiasm and optimism and his thoughtful strategies and vision on how OSS will take over the world.
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That's because it doesn't exist. Please read more carefully, that was a question if such a project is under work, not an affirmation that such a project exists.
>...an open alternative to dotnet Windows.Forms.... Which one is in the lead?
As an alternative, GTK# is one the lead. Then it is wxWidgets# and then Qt#.
>And will Cocoa# be cross-platform?
Probably not. GnuSTEP doesn't support the full Cocoa API, so if a Cocoa# was to exist, it would most probably be MacOSX-only.
>hadn't heard of that one.
That's because it doesn't exist. Please read more carefully, that was a question if such a project is under work, not an affirmation that such a project exists.
>...an open alternative to dotnet Windows.Forms.... Which one is in the lead?
As an alternative, GTK# is one the lead. Then it is wxWidgets# and then Qt#.
>And will Cocoa# be cross-platform?
Probably not. GnuSTEP doesn't support the full Cocoa API, so if a Cocoa# was to exist, it would most probably be MacOSX-only.