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		LeFantome 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep The founder of the GNOME project founded Mono to be the “One Desktop Framework To Rule Them All”. It did not work out.

microtonal 87 days ago [–]

That was to be expected, there was a lot of resistance against using C# because Microsoft tried to destroy Linux in various ways. Toolkit-wise, the Mono on Linux stack used Gtk+. So given the C#-distrust it was easier for people to use C, Perl, Python, or later Vala.

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