Late last night I was surfing though a bunch of the O'Riley Network sites and I came across an interesting article about .NET, and the opinion of a prominiant person in the opensource community (GNOME's Miguel de Icaza). He had quite a bit of praise for .NET, which I thought was suprising. The most interesting thing though, was the announcement of a project to make an open source version of .NET called mono.

His basic rationale was that the open source community has always had better tools than Microsoft. With the .NET platform, he now see's Microsoft surpassing the open source community in that regard, and the the open source community needs an answer to .NET.

How does all of this relate to perl? Well I don't see any direct relation. But with the issues that have arisen with perl running on .NET (now it seems they will still exist with Perl 6), an opensource version could possibly address this. If mono succeeds, it will allow for much better multi-language development, which means a greater ability to couple perl with other languages.

On top of that, I think it will provide a much more full and robust environment for developing.

I'd be interested to hear anyone else's thoughts on this.

Rich

In reply to Open Source .NET? by rchiav

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