Live data from Hacker News

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

mono-project.com

1–10 of 509 posts

Re: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

#3
I have only used mono a couple times, but I am a bit confused by the wording here and it is likely because I don't know the full story of Mono.

But:

> Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork.

Does that mean that this mono project and its associated repo and what is within the dotnet repo are not the same and could (if they have not already) diverge?

Re: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

#6
post #2

"Donates"? A code base is a maintenance burden.

That’s the old code base which has been in maintenance mode for 5 years and which Microsoft doesn’t want to maintain anymore. New development still happen in a fork which remains under the stewardship of Microsoft.

Second paragraph of the article by the way, just saying.

Re: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

#7

[flagged]

Perhaps us C programmers should be telling the Rust programmers to stop shitting up the industry for everyone else because "C" is too hard to get right?

Really, point aside, there is no place for zealots and many places for a rational decision analysis in what tools to use. Absolutes and extremism are all bad.

Re: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

#10

[flagged]

> If Rust is "too hard", find some other profession and stop shitting up the industry for everyone else.

If you really like Rust you should promote it by using it to write great tools that inspire others to use it, instead of shitting on people who use other tools to do actual work.

Post reply on HN