Is .NET on Linux Finally Ready?

"De Icaza noted that what the Mono project has been doing is to actually identify what parts of .NET developers are using. Since the Mono 1.2.3 release the MoMA (Mono Migration Analyzer) tool has been available to examine existing .NET executables and determine all of the items that are necessary from .net in order to run.

"Thanks to statistical data from MoMA, we're able to prioritize what people are actually using," De Icaza said. "What is important about this is there are some API's that we've definitely postponed. For example, [Windows Presentation Foundation] is not something that we're working on right now."

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