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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Member since:2008-02-26
Well, they haven't yet...
Well, now they have Mono, backed by Novell and GNOME...
The great thing about Mono is that you can run Java, Python, Ruby and many other languages on top of the Mono VM
This is if you have previously compiled the code. If you are compiling at runtime you have 5 compilers instead of five runtimes.
However, if Mono means we will get ready-to-jit .NET IL code instead of tons of text files I am all for it.
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2008-02-22
Well, they haven't yet...
DE writers should stick to at most two technologies, one being native code.
Why only 2? The more languages a DE has bindings for, the more people who are able to contribute. Don't know C, but know C#? Use the Mono bindings. Don't know C, but know Python? Use the Python bindings. End-users don't care what language programs are written in as long as they work and get the job done.
The great thing about Mono is that you can run Java, Python, Ruby and many other languages on top of the Mono VM - I think another poster already brought this up in an earlier post.