O'Reilly Network: Miguel on Mono. "Miguel de Icaza is a happy developer--his Mono project is progressing well and is on schedule." ... "The JIT is now "self-hosting on Linux ... It can pretty much run anything we throw at it," Miguel said, happy to be free of relying on Microsoft's C# (pronounced c sharp) compiler. JIT allows him to work on Unix instead of having to switch to Windows for compiling."
"Miguel said he knows of no companies porting .NET to other Unix variants, such as Sun Microsystems' Solaris. "I haven't talked to Sun about this, but I probably should." He said his gut feeling is that Sun wouldn't be interested because, "They are betting everything on Java.""
"Completing Mono will be just as vital for the Unix community as .NET is for Microsoft's developers. Developers from either platform will be able to write code in one environment and bring the applications into others. "It's an extremely important need of the Unix universe," says Miguel. "Basically Microsoft had very hard-to-program-for APIs. People are still using C++; it's very hard to debug. .NET brought a breath of fresh air into Microsoft's applications.""
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
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