Anyone using Mono?

[Michael Davies]

> List,
> I was curious if anyone uses Mono atm. If so how good is it compared to
.NET
> and how interoperable is it?
> I have read the site about it but I'd like some 'real world' info.


Yep, I am playing with it.  Mainly doing hacks on a couple of OSS projects
- dashboard, beagle, f-spot, iFolder.  Also using it to run Tomboy - which
is a nice post-it notes / personal wiki application btw :)

Mono works pretty well, although there are gaps in the framework,
especially around Windows.Forms (no surprises there).  Novell have got
some people doing a clean Windows.Forms implementation - haven't looked at
it personally, but looks promising.

If you use the Linux application stack (Gtk# etc) rather than the Windows
compatability stack, it's even better.  Even so, byte code is
interchangeable between Mono/Microsoft's .Net - just so long as you have
the same libraries installed in both environments, but that doesn't
interest me much because I just don't run Windows away from work.

I'd also take the effort to come up to speed with MonoDevelop - it's
pretty useful, and no less buggy than VS.Net (and I'm not normally
pro-IDEs).

HTH,

Michael...
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