mono:: is alive and well...
Although I had followed the mono project (Ximian's implementation of the CLI), and even talked about it in short words many times, I finally made my mind to really see it...
Actually, I didn't just think I should do it, but it was in preparation for a talk that Youness Habibi will do for the Morocco .Net User Group, and I had promised to assist him (as if I had any idea about it)...
It was quite an experience, and actually we were helped by Mr. Lebbadi of Atrait for compiling and configuring mono(A nice Linux guy, who didn't even say anything harsh to me - except mybe saying something in this line : are you as open to others as Microsoft). That help was crucial, for neither I nor Youness had ever really touched a Linux beyond the user interface and maybe some "vi"...
Well, how happy we were when the hello world "mono style" worked and we had that "mono:: is alive and well..." on the screen. That was only few minutes after Morocco's victory in the mid-final African Soccer Cup, and Casablanca was going wild ... Still, we almost topped the cround's noise when we were rejoicing after we copied the .exe to windows and it worked...
Tomorrow, we are going to start doing some serious tests on mono : (Data, Web Wervices, WebForms, WinForms...)... Long live the world of portable .Net IL ...
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