Miguel de Icaza Talks About Mono

Matthew Revell writes "Miguel de Icaza defends Mono and talks about its future relationship with the Gnome desktop, in the latest LugRadio. The leader of the open source implementation of .NET says no one is forced to use Mono but he hopes it will make life easier for open source developers. "

Miguel de Icaza Talks About Mono

[Anonymous Coward]

Claims "a couple of penicilin shots and it all cleared up."

(Yes, yes, I know. Mono is a virus, anti-biotics are useless, and many of them are actually dangerous to mono sufferers...)

Re:well..

[suso]

Shouldn't mono be a story for the day after Valentine's day?

Well, that's a relief.

[Anonymous Coward]

The leader of the open source implementation of .NET says no one is forced to use Mono but he hopes it will make life easier for open source developers.

I thought he was planning on jamming it down our throats and making things harder for us.

Please don't hit me...

[alext]

defends Mono by saying no one is forced to use it

Awww, I bet those of you that have been beating him up for the last 3 years feel really mean now!

Don't worry, it will pass.

Re:mono

[Inzkeeper]

> Mono... I do belive that CLIs are the way to go.

I couldn't agree more. If it can't be done from a command line interface, it isn't worth doing! w00t! ...or did you mean CIL: Common Intermediate Language [wikipedia.org]?, a CLR, Common Language Runtime.

Ok, I have to admit: CIL is a brilliant concept too.
If only Parrot [parrotcode.org] wasn't pushing up the daisies.
HELLO POLLY PARROT!!!

Re:Server side Java for multiple platforms is not

[miguel]

Hello,

Yes, "Java has a hell more production sites
than Mono". This is whats wrong with this
argument: if "having more production sites" is the
metric to choose a technology over something new
then we would still be running code in assembler
and Cobol. After all, there were more production
systems written in those than in C, C++ or Java
when these languages came out.

Love,
Miguel.

Re:Cross platform apps and scripting

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

"...when a project I was (am) working on required a scripting engine that could handle running scripts from anonymous sources, id est untrusted... This started us looking into Mono, which doesn't implement all the security features -yet-, but by our planned release date, they should be done, or very close."

My friend, you have some big balls. You're going to release something which needs a lot of security when the underlying security bits are unfinished and thus cannot be tested. Good luck with that.

"We went through a large range of languages: python, perl, angelscript, php, lua..."

I just have to ask: what about Java or JavaScript?

These LugRadio guys...

[RichDice]

I've never heard these guys before. They're amusing and all, but they're kind of like the Bevis and Butthead of the Linux commentary world, aren't they?

Cheers,
Richard