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As a C# developer who genuinely likes the C# language (although I loathe vast swaths of the .NET framework libs) I'm actually super-excited about this.

C# is a great language, and I hope to see it flourish outside of the MS walled garden. Miguel de Icaza does what he can with Mono, but it can be so much more.

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Agreed. I've long since left .NET-land, but I still miss C#, LINQ and the like. Here's hoping for great stuff in the future.

Agreed.

I really like C#. But it's currently pretty close to useless anywhere other than Windows - Mono doesn't even come close.

Hopefully this will close the gap.

Depending on what you are doing, Mono has come very far. The new GC is in and a lot of optimizations have been made. Ubuntu 14 will ship with 3.2.8 I believe which has all the goodies. Apparently the performance is still poor for web development but it works well for daemons/desktop apps. You're probably better starting off with a tech that is cross platform out of the box instead of relying on Mono but if you have an existing C# project then Mono is awesome.

Mono isn't bad for mobile development actually.

I've started to get experience with javascript, and Java, and Scala the past year or so as my resume is very heavily weighted with C#. I'm glad to see there may be life outside Microsoft.

But I still hope Microsoft does well, because frankly I like .NET

Due to the way my employer works, I actually have one foot on each camp and keep changing sides depending on customer requirements. :)

What's wrong with the libs?

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