We all heard of the new technology from Microsoft called Silverlight. What Silverlight is? Well you could say it’s a king of flash like technology only that it is based on AJAX and .NET technology. It’s public version 1.1 was recently released and promises alot although personally I find the tooling a little bit crude.
Well not guys from Mono thought why not make it available also for linux platforms. They started a build-a-thon and managed to get a version up and working, in 21 (twenty one) days!!!
The project is called Moonlight (nice touch) and it is not dependant on Mono, which means you do not have to have mono installed.
Well, if they manage to port also Visual Studio …
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IMO, Mono is an outstanding proof that things can be done outside Microsoft’s tight hand, so I am glad they took a shot at Silverlight also, they do show a lot of potential. I always wanted to give Mono a try, but unfortunately my time did not permit it (always found something else to do), but the wish still remains to see what’s under the hood so I will eventually give it a run. As for Visual Studio porting…that would be nice, but us “real coders” can manage without it just fine
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