Re: Mono/GTK#/Tomboy

[Ben Maurer <bmaurer andrew cmu edu>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Murray Cumming wrote:
> And while there were almost no objections to Python, there are clearly
> many objections to Mono.

What objections? So far, the only two objections I've heard are:

1. Performance -- I feel that I've addressed this in other emails.

2. Vague references to TLAs such as ISV, OEM, API, ABI without refering to 
specific problems. Mono provides a very strong ABI in the base class 
libraries (we implement the same API as the .NET framework). For mono 
specific libraries, Mono commits to a similar stability level.

Further, the objections mentioned all seem to apply equaly to python and 
mono. Python is allowed for desktop apps already. If nobody can come up 
with objections to mono that don't apply equally to python, it would seem 
that mono and python should be on equal footing.

-- Ben