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Peeking Under the Lid of Open Source .NET CLI Implementations
Cross-platform .NET development is imminent, but the purpose, the feature set, and the platform support varies. We were curious about the development of the various open source implementations of Microsoft .NET's Common Language Runtime, so we talked to the key developers in charge of each of three CLI implementations—Mono, Rotor, and Portable .NET—to find out what exactly they've built, how they did it, and how they compare. What we found might surprise you.
by Chris Preimesberger,
Matt Liotta
October 23, 2002
David Stutz, Microsoft
Francois Jacques, Corel's Rotor
Jean Claude Batista, Corel's Rotor
Miguel de Icaza, Mono (Ximian)
Rhys Weatherly, Portable .NET
As the new open-source implementations of the .NET platform take shape, developers targeting .NET face an extremely welcome challenge—creating applications that run on multiple platforms. As developers, we wanted to know what you can expect from each of these implementations. How are they alike? How are they different? What are their goals and problems?
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