-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hardik Belani wrote: > 1. Is Mono mature and stable enough to be considered for using it to > built a high performance platform independent server application. Can > you provide any example of a good server application written on top of Mono?
Just to name a few: http://www.fiducial.biz/ https://developer.mozilla.org/ http://www.whorunsgov.com/ http://www.govtrack.us/ http://kmbs.konicaminolta.us/content/products/models/printgroove.html For more details check out: http://mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono#Web_Projects_Using_Mono > 2. Also why one should decide to use Mono instead of Java to write > platform independent server application (specially when primary > requirement for server is to run on linux with top performance). There are tons of reasons, but a lot of the final decisions come down to personal opinions. - - great performance, scalability - - good integration with great web servers (better than Java) - - many languages for different levels of engineers (http://www.mono-project.com/Languages) - - Mono keeps getting faster and faster (despite already being very fast) - - .NET (Mono) is continually evolving, whereas Java is very slow at it And finally, book sales are an interesting indicator: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-22.html Java has been continually shrinking whereas other languages like .NET (Mono) have been rising. > 3. Are we going to face any performance issues as application grows in > size and complexity? What are the performance issues when an application > runs on top of Mono as compared to an application written using c/c++. Nothing just "scales", so it depends on how you design the applications architecture. And when comparing C/C++ to other languages you have to take into account time-to-life as compared to performance. C/C++ - SLOW time to life - can have best performance .NET/Java - good time to life - can have great performance Python / dynamic languages - great time to life - can have very good performance if not great - lack of "Types" can make team projects "complicated" The only way to know if you should use Mono is to "use Mono". I've been using it before there where "releases" and I would never trade it for Java. Just remember that no language or framework is "the entire tool chest", so pick the right tools. I hope that helps. Regards, ~ Matthew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm4Ch4ACgkQLrcoBjlTBf0QgQCfe8dp4l8XQxWt3mBNYf9hwfvi WM0AoMrJNVggCRmjexH64Oanrq2rOaTY =cVOr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
