From kde-devel  Mon Dec 01 03:14:17 2008
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:14:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE Development with Mono/C#
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On Sunday 30 November 2008, Matthias Burtscher wrote:
> But I am wondering why there is no approach to bring new technologies
> like Mono into KDE. I think it would be a much more developer friendly
> and also faster and cleaner way to build applications. And I think that
> most of you - who know the concept behind Mono/.Net - agree with this.

i'll avoid re-hashing what others have said (c# bindings are worked on, mon=
o=20
may not be the best idea in the world, yadda yadda), but i will point out t=
hat=20
there are also ruby and python bindings for KDE4; java and perl bindings ex=
ist=20
for KDE3 in addition to ruby and python. so there's already a lot of choice.

i think if we compare the number of FOSS applications written in python, ru=
by=20
and c# the importance of each language to the ecosystem becomes self-eviden=
t.=20
i'm glad we have the choice of languages .. =3D)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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