Same. Granted, I've only tried it twice in the past years, but every time, it allowed me to run a .net executable on Mac OS without any efforts. I was really impressed.
-- Cédric On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]>wrote: > The little I've used Mono I've been impressed with it. MonoDevelop is > still the fastest IDE I've used at least on tiny projects. > On Jun 18, 2012 11:11 AM, "Casper Bang" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Somehow a minute news item regarding the deprecation of an API in Mono, >> inflates to the following loaded statements: >> >> 1h14m: "What it comes down to...Mono is an ill-informed kind of thing to >> do..." >> 1h15m5s: "All it did was to confuse the issue for a while..." >> 1h15m28: "They are not going away completely..." >> 1h16m13: "Where the story falls over, is where you have to write a >> separate UI for each of the platforms..." >> 1h18m04: "*Sigh* They'll keep trying... Mono has never been a slam dunk, >> we'll see if they ever get anything compelling". >> >> Let's address this objectively without any preconceived notions or >> agendas for a moment, as seen from someone with a leg in both camps: >> >> Fact; Microsoft submitted C# and the runtime spec to Ecma and has never >> sued anyone implementing on top of these (I.e. Boo, IronPython, Unity >> etc.). Meanwhile, Sun never submitted Java to any standards org, but >> instead made all the terms and holds veto power in the JCP. Indeed, it >> would prove to come at a catastrophic cost to the alternative >> implementation Apache Harmony. Also, Oracle's attempted to copyright the >> API's. So tell me, who looks like the bad guys here?! >> >> Moonlight made Linux people able to consume Silverlight content, not >> unlike IcedTea made Linux people able to consume Java content. The RIA >> plugin race was a confusing time in general, but is there a particular >> reason to slander Mono for not foreseeing that none of the RIA >> technologies, incl. Silverlight, were the way forward? >> >> Xamarin aren't going anywhere, they simply halted development on a >> deprecated technology. Has this not been known to happen in the Sun camp? >> (JSR-295, JSR-296 etc.) >> >> If we have learned anything from Java, it is that a cross-platform UI >> toolkit just doesn't cut it - it will always be the hunt for the lowest >> common denominator, which is low enough to make crap on all platforms, but >> not low enough to make quality on any single one of these. Swing took MVC >> too far, while the true power of this pattern comes from being able to >> plug-in a new VC layer on top of M. This separation of concerns is hugely >> successful across the board, indeed today you even find this applying to >> hardcore game engines (QuakeEngine, UnrealEngine, CryENGINE etc.) which >> are licenced so that developers may only have to focus on front-end stuff >> (VC). Giving birth to a whole industry seems like a success criteria right? >> >> As to the "nothing compelling" remark, I think you'd have to be pretty >> dumb, not to see the advantage of being able to target 3 separate platforms >> (Android, iOS and WinMobile) from within one unified umbrella when it comes >> to IDE, language and support. Perhaps not as interesting to a large >> multi-national corporation, but certainly to smaller teams with a >> mobile-oriented marked and limited resources or time-to marked requirements. >> >> Look, I get it, Microsoft were a$$es in the past and you can of course >> spread all the FUD you want on your very own podcast - but realize that it >> makes you sound like old grumpy men with an agenda, and that some of the >> greatest leaps forward comes from cross-pollination... even if you are >> allergic to those pollen. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/JDegHA9Z_Q4J. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
