Mono 2.8 Released

mallumax writes "A new veriosn of Mono(2.8) has been released: Mono has now integrated SourceGear's webservice enhancements, and there has been a lot of improvement in XML, serialization and web services. Other features are new thread locking and ahead-of-time compiler optimisations. Check out the Mono website for more details." Congratulations are in order for the Mono team as well -- SourceGear was their first customer.

Re:Mono - the most important OS project currently

[burns210]

at best, mono will be a never ending catch-up game... always having to tweak itself to stay MS compatible... plus, mono will need to be able to handle all the win32 api calls, so that means WINE needs a lot more development before it will be a formitable opponent to .net

a native port would be huge, but Bill would never give Linux that much power... here is hoping Apple gets a native port of .net

Re:My views on mono

[BigGerman]

that is a good point.
I support Mono for several reasons:
C# is a very good language
Creating Windows(like) GUI in C# is a pleasure
In a all-out struggle of good vs. evil it is wise to hedge the bets and Sun (and therefore Java) seems to be on decline right now.

But having Ruby or Python grow up to be an alternative to .NET would have been much better choice.
Ruby Application Server anyone?