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Re: [IBMiOSS] [EXTERNAL] Mono Port To IBM i Now Available

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 8:57 AM Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think some concerns from our shop would be: [...] (4) questions about the future of Mono given the open source, multi-platform .NET Core alternative (though Mono and Core may be slowly converging, since Core is open for use by the Mono community and Microsoft owns the Mono-based Xamarin mobile app platform).

Despite its billing, it's debatable whether .NET Core is "more
multiplatform" than Mono. So far, it's still far easier to port Mono
itself than .NET Core. As for long-term strategy, it's hard to say.
Mono will still be around and important for quite some time (somewhere
between "several" and "many" years, I'd guess).

Most importantly in my mind, Mono is already largely here. (Obviously
the database issue has to be solved, but that strikes me as a very
tractable problem.) If you want to wait for .NET Core to arrive on the
i, you could be waiting a very long time.

John

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