Why Mono Is Desirable For Linux

[Sidicas]

Hate to quote myself, but I can't edit my post anymore...

It appears when Qt applications run on linux they get the benefit of some 2D accelerations that they don't get under Windows.

This would be the Qt "native" renderer for the platform which is X11/XRender. X11/XRender is, IMO, a lot better than Raster as it scales up to very high resolutions very beatufully with only modest hardware. The Raster painter in Qt 4.3 and later, in my opinion, simply sucks. As the Qt developer who worked on Raster said...
"Double the size of the primitive in each direction and you have one quarter the performance. "
"if you compare the N900 to the desktop Windows machine you see that despite windows only having a 4 times faster processor the speed is often around 10 times worse. "

Yes, with a 4 times faster processor your Qt applications run 10x slower! That's not platform favoritism at all, is it? /sarcasm.

I just wish that a Qt developer wrote somewhere that Qt simply sucks on Windows and I wouldn't have even bothered to try it as a cross platform solution. So yes, Mono here I come. I saw this thread already was a ranting thread so I might as well put my 2 cents in as well.

[ciplogic]

(...) I'm sticking to using C++/C#, but seeing 98% of the application's CPU usage get sucked down because of 2D graphics work being done on the CPU (in Windows) is discouraging. Shame on you Qt! It's clear Qt favors Linux, how can it really be considered cross-platform when they half-ass the support for other platforms??. I'll definitely give Mono a try.

Just to say in passing, some people here do not have any reason to use or not use excluding hate, impressionism, mis-characterization, and so on. You're fully right that WPF on Windows and Gtk# on Linux are both GPU accelerated, so Mono applications seem to run faster at least based on UI snappiness if you target WPF and Gtk#.
Being said that, Gtk# on Windows has the same problems as you described with Qt, but the fault is not on the # side, but on Gtk+ side: GDK APIs and Cairo APIs are translated via GDI+, and Cairo painting is painfully slow because of this translation (yet is a bit faster than Qt). So C/C++ side is slow, because doesn't take advantage of the underlying hardware. For this reason, Mono applications can be abstracted easier based on underlying hardware, and a lot of ways to do it, and this is the Mono's way to do this.
One last part which I appreciate in your comment is that what's matter for user is the overall experience, and this can be provided given the tools in a lot of other languages/platforms. Users don't care that is written in "optimized C++" if is that sluggish, but they will ditch the application and will use one that looks just nice, and runs fast enough in Adobe AIR or in .Net

[Jam66es]

We need the certainty that Microsoft will not try to harm Mono in any way.

[Jam66es]

I think Microsoft is content to have a Linux version available

[directhex]

(Jam66es is an automated spambot; ignore)

[ciplogic]

We need the certainty that Microsoft will not try to harm Mono in any way.

... and also that Apple and Google will not harm GCC, they seem to work more with LLVM than with GCC lately. And also Microsoft, Oracle and IBM to not attack C++, and as Qt/QML is using Webkit/V8/and JavaScriptCore to not use Apple's JavaScript implementation. IBM and Oracle have huge interest in Java bussiness, and they want to destroy x86, as they want to sell sell SPARC/PowerPC CPUs.
I think if you're using KDE you should remove it right away:

apt-get remove libqt4-core

.
Try XFCE or directly X11: is much safer!

[gamerk2]

MONO is shit and should be banned from linux because we can't have linux core programs written in C# and thus be made dependent on Microsoft. They can always fuck us over so don't give them the opportunity. Basically don't start writing new apps in C# or convert existing ones to C#. Unless you want to bend over and take it from Mr. I can't program but I am the CEO of a software company Ballmer.

Translation: You don't like the choice of programming languages, so therefore Mono should not be included, despite being free software.

[CARMEN]

But what is WoG?

[andxim]

Oh wait!...you're a moron!!...
you argue than c# is a java copy..has you used the latest c# version??..actually..has you used c#??...c# is a most complete language than java, java as language has been sleeping for many years and this doesn't seem a modern language anymore..c# has copied ideas from dynamic languages, from functional languages (java doesn't even has lambdas!!) and it's much more expressive and powerfull than java (as language)...

Mono has aot compilation, better com interop with c/c++ and better heap memory manager than java...
so..if you doesn't have any shitty idea from what are you talking about and you mention a shitty game with the worse performance ever as a demostration about how good is java for games, you're simply crazy...

and note: anyone pay me for use c# .net or mono...I use this because I prefer over jvm...

just because, obviously, C# is the only high level language, only C# allows small teams of people to create games.
Oh wait! Java is a high level language!
Oh wait! C# was created with the intention of being java cloning for windows.
Oh wait! Minecraft was written in Java.

As for the author of the article. "...Uses C# among other languages"
Question: Why would you use C# if you could use anything else at all.
(Obvious) answer. Because someone pays you to do so.

[randomizer]

...(java doesn't even has lambdas!!)...

Java 8 has lambdas... finally.