{"id":388,"date":"2004-03-25T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/25\/whats-the-point-of-dotgnu-and-mono\/"},"modified":"2004-03-25T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T13:42:50","slug":"whats-the-point-of-dotgnu-and-mono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/25\/whats-the-point-of-dotgnu-and-mono\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the point of DotGNU and Mono?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a345'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n The Register comments on DotGNU and Mono.  Personally, I&#8217;ve been ignoring<br \/>\n any of the Open Source .NET projects until they hit 1.0.  And even then<br \/>\n I&#8217;m going to wait until some killer app convinces me I need to install<br \/>\n any of these frameworks just to try that app.  In the meantime, I&#8217;ve<br \/>\n not seen anything out of the projects that looks remotely useful for<br \/>\n me as a programmer.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I am<br \/>\n impressed with Miguel and buddies technical prowess at building this<br \/>\n stuff from the ground up.  I fully agree with The Register article.<br \/>\n By the time Mono or DotGNU get around to implementing all of the stuff that will<br \/>\n be USEFUL to OTHER programmers Microsoft will have moved on to the next<br \/>\n project built on top of other building blocks that they&#8217;re building NOW.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n Mono and dotGNU are interesting projects for people who are interested in computer languages, compiler construction and other fairly esoteric, hard-core areas of software engineering. But they have no practical use, and exist only with the patronage of Microsoft.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/4\/35481.html\">Link to story<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register comments on DotGNU and Mono. Personally, I&#8217;ve been ignoring any of the Open Source .NET projects until they hit 1.0. And even then I&#8217;m going to wait until some killer app convinces me I need to install any of these frameworks just to try that app. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve not seen anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}