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Comment by tsomctl | Hacker News Reader

  dotNET is a MS only platform.

These people would like to disagree: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr https://github.com/ajensenwaud/coreclr http://www.mono-project.com/

And does Java support unsigned integers yet?

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C#/.Net has so many advantages over Java (and lots of cons too), and you choose "unsigned integers"?

Not sure there would be any point to unsigned integers in Java. Most cases where you would want to use them you are better off writing in C and calling it via JNI. That's what is done on Android when you need performance, anyway, that or RenderScript.

Are there any major projects built using mono?

Unity is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29

Unity has been using an old version of .Net for licensing reasons.

Also, about a year or so ago, they started porting to an LLVM-based solution and Unity 5+ is expected to be discontinue the Mono runtime.

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