New Python/C# Bindings Expand KDE Languages

Dre writes: "Today marks a special coincidence. First, Adam Treat released the initial version of Qt bindings for C#, which consists of 476 Qt classes converted to C#. The bindings work with the Mono compiler, runtime environment and class libraries, enabling a fully Open Source implementation of C# for Qt. While not yet ready for a real application, Adam has managed to write and execute a Hello World! program (screenshot). KDE bindings are on the drawing board. Shortly thereafter, Phil Thompson, Jim Bublitz and theKompany.com released KDE 2 and KDE 3 bindings for Python. Together with the Java, Objective C and C bindings in the kdebindings module, as well as the Ruby bindings, KDE is providing developers a broad gamut of application development languages."

Why?

[Garthnak]

Alright. At the risk of sounding like a troll or a flamer, I'm going to ask what I do think many other people just asked when seeing this article:

Why?

Okay, okay. This has probably been covered in other Slashdot articles covering C#, .NET, etc. But for one thing, I do not see these things gaining a lot of acceptance in the open source community. There's the Mono project, but in my personal interaction with other OSS programmers, they agree this is a Bad Idea.

Alright, I'll spare you the rants and reasons on the subject - you've heard them all before - but my point is here is not necessarily my own beliefs and opinions on the C#/.NET situation. My point is that this is something that _most_ of us (in my experience) are rejecting outright. I think Miguel de Icaza is crazy for spouting pro-.NET rhetoric in the GNOME project when there's such a clear lack of support of most of his community, and this Qt thing just doubles that across both desktop environments.

Am I totally out of line here? Will anyone _actually_ use this? Is there really a population of hackers out there who will be writing X apps with C#? Personally, I'm highly dubious about the whole thing. If you agree with me, reply. If you don't, reply. But flames can be filed in /dev/null.

--Garthnak

Yea!

[RevAaron]

Man, this Mono stuff is taking off pretty well... it may get me to switch back to Linux from OS X just yet! :) Does Mono, at this point, rely on any ASM, or is it all C? Has anyone compiled it for PPC?