OSNews has a listing of all the projects (that they know of) being developed for Mono right now. (Link courtesy of slashdot… again) It’s encouraging to see how this project is taking off.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Mono is an open source development platform based on .NET; it uses C#, has bindings for the gtk widgets in the form of a gtk# library, and is gaining steam steadily. A lot of people are nervous because it’s based on a Microsoft product, and they don’t want to admit that Microsoft could have come up with anything worth emulating. Well, blanket generalizations like that, while entertaining, are not the best way to order one’s life.
I have to admit, I’ve been very hesitant about embracing Mono. Is .NET on Linux something we want? Is it a good thing? I’m getting a little more comfortable with the idea, and since C# is an ECMA standard, I don’t think Microsoft could ever "pull the rug" out from under an open source .NET, like so many have suggested they might.
I’ll try to play around with some Mono programming over this weekend; maybe that GTK project I’m thinking of will be C#/gtk# instead of C/gtk+…
