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When Microsoft announced that Silverlight was going to be a cross-platform technology that only ran on Windows and Apple, I was extremely frustrated.
I'm primarily a Windows/.NET developer that is slowly working towards migrating to a Linux platform, and the Mono project is one of the key technologies leading me in that direction. The vitriolic tone of this thread is somewhat astonishing to me. Why do you think that Silverlight will do any better?Īgreed. If we're mistaken, if Mono can be integrated well into the UNIX world, we'd love to see you prove us wrong by doing it.īut you don't seem to like the UNIX environment, so I guess you won't be doing anything along those lines.ĪctiveX has failed to make Dot-NET take off in the web application world. We're not happy with the limitations of the Windows programming environment, and we find the large and complex APIs beloved of the Windows developers a throwback to the old pre-UNIX mainframe era, so we expect Silverlight to be the same kind of Windows wart on the side of UNIX. unfortunately, it's not an open system like the UNIX programming environment and so it's not really well liked in the open source world. I loved the Silverlight announcement, it is a way of bringing my favorite platform to the web (the CLR and now the DLR) I loved the Silverlight announcement, it is a way of bringing my favorite platform to the web (the CLR and now the DLR) and it seems like a natural fit and extension to what Mono does. In fact, you can ignore Mono completely, nobody is forcing you to use it Nobody is asking you to contribute to the effort, and nobody is in any position to force you to stop using whatever other technology happens to be your favorite one.
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You can feel free to pursue avenues (a) and (b). (c) Be proactive and implement it ourselves: we got most of the hard bits of the technology already (a CLR, a JIT, the GC, the core class libraries, even up to some parts of LINQ).Ĭonsidering that we are very familiar with the technology, we can do something along the lines of (c). I seriously doubt that Silverlight will not be adopted, in particular the CLR version shows a lot of promise.
(a) the ostrich strategy also known as the "i-cant-hear-you" strategy: pretend that Silverlight does not exist and hope that by ignoring it, it will go away and vanish.
So we got a couple of strategies dealing with this: The majority of people will probably be happy to spice up their web applications with a little silverlight as it will run on Windows and MacOS.īut if there is no Silverlight for Linux, we will be prevented from getting access to content and applications that will be available. Well, because I believe that Siverlight will become an important component in future applications. You've clearly got a lot of talent, so why are you wasting your time making Open Source versions of all of Microsoft's products? All you're effectively doing is giving Microsoft the foothold in Linux that they need. In short, please don't claim to represent all of Linux userdom when you spout off your hatred of GNOME and Mono. The Gtk# engine is one of the most easy to use and powerful GUI frameworks yet made, and is only possible due to Mono. Even outside of Mono, the Nemerle language is another great open-source addition to the. In the same way, I think that Mono has some very innovative features that are unique to it: Mono.Addins comes quickly to mind. I personally prefer KDE for its superior customizability, but GNOME is by no means worthless. GNOME has some very innovative features, such as Beagle and the new GNOME File Chooser dialog, which make it ideal for some kinds of users.
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If we wanted the worst of mac combined with the worst of windows we'd just run vista! Thing is, we don't all hate GNOME. If it were just about price any of us could have a "free" copy of windows too. The people who use Linux do so because they like it, not because it's free. Linux is, and should be, so much more than a poor man's clone of either of these systems.
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