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.NET / Mono dependency is somewhat of a dealbreaker here. .NET might be a fine technology to build an internal product on, like StackOvervlow, but for an open-s

by SeoxyS 14y ago

.NET / Mono dependency is somewhat of a dealbreaker here. .NET might be a fine technology to build an internal product on, like StackOvervlow, but for an open-source project it's a huge barrier to widespread adoption. Especially considering it's a proprietary technology from Microsoft. The same could be said for Java. If it was up to me, my software stack would not include the JVM. Too bad there's no non-JVM alternative for Storm, and Clojure is so awesome.

kmontrose 14y ago
Works fine under Mono, so you can OSS the whole stack even on Windows. Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering.
- SeoxyS 14y ago
  It's not that I'm fear-mongering against .NET / Mono. It's more that I find the idea of having to download, install, and maintain a 1GB proprietary runtime to run a CSS preprocessor, well, preposterous. Don't worry, I have the same repulsion against Java / HotSpot.
- notJim 14y ago
  > Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering. Isn't what Oracle is doing more reason to be concerned about .Net? What if Microsoft failed, and the company that bought their assets rescinded the agreement they've made not to sue?
  - BerislavLopac 14y ago
    But... but... It's Microsoft, it'll never fail! And people will always wear hats!
Meai 14y ago
There is no .NET dependency, there is a CLR dependency. If you have mono installed, you can simply put a line like this in your .bashrc, and use the compiler anywhere: (which I just did) alias more="mono /your/path/to/More.exe"
- gosub 14y ago
  more is a common unix program http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more aliasing it could interfere with some shell script
  - skymt 14y ago
    Aliases shouldn't interfere with shell scripts unless you do something very silly. They're shell-local, and typically you define them in your shell's interactive-initialization file (e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc).
    - count 14y ago
      Right, but it will break my ability to "| more" on the command line in my interactive shell.
    - slurgfest 14y ago
      If there is an executable, it can be named 'morec' after less CSS' 'lessc'
  - slurgfest 14y ago
    less is also a common UNIX program going back decades
- 0xDECAFFEE 14y ago
  more?

by SeoxyS 14y ago

kmontrose 14y ago

Works fine under Mono, so you can OSS the whole stack even on Windows. Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering.

SeoxyS 14y ago
It's not that I'm fear-mongering against .NET / Mono. It's more that I find the idea of having to download, install, and maintain a 1GB proprietary runtime to run a CSS preprocessor, well, preposterous. Don't worry, I have the same repulsion against Java / HotSpot.
notJim 14y ago
> Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering. Isn't what Oracle is doing more reason to be concerned about .Net? What if Microsoft failed, and the company that bought their assets rescinded the agreement they've made not to sue?
- BerislavLopac 14y ago
  But... but... It's Microsoft, it'll never fail! And people will always wear hats!

Meai 14y ago

There is no .NET dependency, there is a CLR dependency. If you have mono installed, you can simply put a line like this in your .bashrc, and use the compiler anywhere: (which I just did) alias more="mono /your/path/to/More.exe"

gosub 14y ago
more is a common unix program http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more aliasing it could interfere with some shell script
- skymt 14y ago
  Aliases shouldn't interfere with shell scripts unless you do something very silly. They're shell-local, and typically you define them in your shell's interactive-initialization file (e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc).
  - count 14y ago
    Right, but it will break my ability to "| more" on the command line in my interactive shell.
  - slurgfest 14y ago
    If there is an executable, it can be named 'morec' after less CSS' 'lessc'
- slurgfest 14y ago
  less is also a common UNIX program going back decades
0xDECAFFEE 14y ago
more?