Gnome and Mono

Maybe it’s a good thing…
I’ve been reading a good bit about some cool Gnome projects[1][2].

What makes me uneasy about these projects is that they both plan to or are using C# as the language choice. Following a MS technology like this is bound to bite you/us at some point.

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2 Comments

  1. mysticmoose
    Posted July 21, 2003 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    fear - people still use that language?

    I thought it had pretty much gone the way of Bob.

  2. satyap
    Posted August 3, 2003 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

    I just realised what bothered me about this. An application for Gnome… in C#? WTH? What are they smoking and is it legal? Why not C, that’s about as platform-independent as you can get. Why not Perl, TCL/Tk, Python….