Comment Re:Well done guys! (Score 1) 414
But nobody except Linux developers will be using the Mono APIs. So, if we assume that you're correct, and 'embrace and extend' is really Miguel's goal, how is the result any different than if Ximian just used Python's GTK bindings (or whatever)?
Because there probably are a lot more C# developers compared to Python developers. But you say "Java then?" and I'd say you'd have made a better point but C# and the .Net framework (MS's version anyway) has the backing of MS. So if I'll have a much easier time as a windows .NET developer switching to Mono's stack for tiny stuff like using Gtk# to replace Winforms (if I didn't want to use the Wine libs) than I would switching to Java or anything else.
Because there probably are a lot more C# developers compared to Python developers. But you say "Java then?" and I'd say you'd have made a better point but C# and the
