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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-04-07 11:07.

From a Gnome core standpoint Mono probably doesn't provide much, and I'll argue that probably not enough attention is given to system type stuff, which C is fine for. But for just normal, average gui apps C# is a decent language(I'd take it over Java anyday) and at some point in time for certain apps it just makes sense to move into the managed world with rich class libraries.

Nobody is talking about "rewriting Gnome or gtk+ apps in mono." The great thing about c# is that you can leverage native libraries with pinvoke a lot easier than java and JNI.

As for me, I do care about the windows platform, so in my case it makes sense to write stuff in c# even if I have to port over the front-end gui.

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