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Speaking only for myself...   the value here is not for new development.  We have lots of options for that, and most (IMHO) are better options than Mono.

The value of this is that many of the applications that others wrote for the Mono/.NET environment can be run on IBM i.  That brings a whole slew of new options to the platform!


On 4/16/19 10:49 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
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.)




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From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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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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