RE: Mono on IBM i - Porting Mono to AIX and IBM i -- MIDRANGE-L

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Perfectly valid question. I think most of the FOSS dev options are to attract/assist people who already know those environments. For an i-native dev, why should they use option "x" instead of RPG? The answer I hear most often is to utilize existing utilities/libraries. I guess that depends on the kind of work you do. Virtually everything I do is so specific, everything has to be custom anyway.

(You could insert a different traditional language instead of RPG, but RPG is pretty much synonymous with IBMi.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:24 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Mono on IBM i - Porting Mono to AIX and IBM i

Richard, I know I'm lobbing one over the middle of the plate here, but can you give me a brief list of the top 5 benefits of .Net over all of the other options we have on the IBM i? Obviously if you have Windows development talent in-house, it's a pretty easy call, but what about for shops that don't? What about the .Net environment intrinsically benefits me as a developer? Why would I (Joe Pluta) want to take the time to broaden my .Net skills?

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