Mono on the Mac: Time to look beyond Linux?
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| As you'll no doubt be aware, the Mono Project is an ambitious,
| open-source initiative, largely coordinated by Novell. The aim
| is to build a complete suite of ECMA- compliant .NET tools (C#
| compiler, runtime, class frameworks, etc) which work across all
| supported platforms, including Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
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| Conclusions
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| Arguably, I've been a bit unfair here. The real stomping ground of Mono is
| undoubtedly Linux and -- to a lesser extent -- the Win32 platform. That's
| apparently where most of the development effort is being expended these
| days.
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| As far as OS X is concerned, I fear that Mono is stuck between a rock and a
| hard place. On the one hand, Cocoa-heads see no compelling reason to
| embrace a new and alien language while Mac purists (end users, in
| particular) will have no interest whatsoever in running strange-looking
| applications which won't work until they've started the X11 server. On the
| other hand, Linux devotees aren?t particularly fond of OS X, partly because
| it's a proprietary closed-source (in part) platform.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/02/16/uncle_mac_mono_/
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