As a veteran C and Perl programmer, I'm just beginning with C# and mono over the past few days. Despite a few bugs cropping up in monodevelop (including one where it crashes and loses changes... ugh) I'm actually rather liking the language itself. Once I become more familiar with the classes available, I think it will be a rather powerful tool. It seems to lack the annoying little quirks that kept me away from Java and C++, so if the performance turns out to be vastly superior to that of a Perl or Ruby script, it may end up becoming a language I use an awful lot.
I certainly hope to see more FreeBSD & mono love in the future. Novell is pretty invested in their [SuSE] Linux, so it'll likely fall to us in the BSD community to make the best stuff happen.
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